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Montana · Nonprofit
Friends of Beaverhead County Fair (Montana) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $120,000 in grants to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of Beaverhead County Fair runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,060 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,060 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
$10k from 1 funders in 2023, up from $110k and 2 in 2022.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Beaverhead County Fair’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Friends of Beaverhead County Fair leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 91% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Friends of Beaverhead County Fair draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
94% of spending goes to programs.
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing