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Montana · Nonprofit
Friends of Bigfork Fire Department (Montana) is funded by 7 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $170,314 in grants to it, the largest being Williams-Malone Foundation Inc ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of Bigfork Fire Department has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,040 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,040 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
0% of Friends of Bigfork Fire Department’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
$500 from 1 funders in 2025, up from $5k and 2 in 2019.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Bigfork Fire Department’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Friends of Bigfork Fire Department leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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: 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 86% · 2023 62% · 2024 86% · 2025 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 Bigfork Fire Department draws 65% 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. Your 7 funders put you typical among the 392 organizations that share them.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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