Montana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,472,934 to it, the largest being TYKESON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($580,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Friends of the Children - Montana does
Mission
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country, or enter the workforce. 83% graduate high school or earn a ged, 93% avoid juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to parent until after their teen years.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth in the friends program face considerable challenges, including placement in the foster care system, under-resourced neighborhood schools, homelessness, hunger, and challenges in access to and quality of health care. Despite these barriers, program youth enter adulthood with strong foundations for continuing achievement: 92% go on to enroll in post-secondary education, serve our country or enter the workforce, 83% graduate high school or earn a ged, 93% avoid juvenile justice system involvement, and 98% wait to parent until after their teen years.
$1,291,122 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,291,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $1.8M (+58%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ben Davis
Executive director
Board chair
Heidi Starrett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $125k → $316k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the Children). These are real filings, and they are not money FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA raised.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
74% of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA (Montana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,472,934 to it, the largest being TYKESON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($580,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,472,934 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA?
- TYKESON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 25 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing