Montana · Nonprofit
GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION
GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,631 to it, the largest being OAKLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $412k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $810k
What Great Falls Community Ice Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Great Falls Community Ice Foundation is to provide affordable hockey, figure, and recreational skating for the greatest number of citizens, young or old, and for all skill levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization operates an ice arena, called the iceplex, for the benefit of ice users in great falls and cascade county, montana. The organization provides ice space for hockey, figure and recreational skating, and other ice sports. The organization attempts to keep ice usage fees as low as possible, though it must charge for ice time to cover those operating expenses and iceplex-construction-related debt service obligations that are not covered by contributions. The organization also offers certain services for the convenience of users such as rental of ice skates, skate sharpening, and miscellaneous items that might be urgently needed by skaters and ice sport players.
$447,384 spent$368,473 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,384.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $1.8M (−7%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $188.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION’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
GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $631 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION?
- GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,631 to it, the largest being OAKLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $110,631 in grants to GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION?
- OAKLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing