Montana · Nonprofit
HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM
HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $323 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($323). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $224k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $323
- Net assets
- $171k
What Helena Lions Swim Team does
Mission
Helena Lions Swim Team is a community-based competitive swim team, challenging swimmers to achieve personal excellence in swimming and in life. The organization is managed by volunteers, but has professional coaching staff for approximately 80 swimmers annually. The team is usa swimming sanctioned and holds 2 home swim meets annually in addition to competing in meets across montana and the pacific northwest. The team has a modest scholarship fund to offset seasonal dues for swimmers of families in financial crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Helena Lions Swim Team (hlst) is located in helena, mt. Its sole program is to develop swim athletes to achieve personal excellence at their sport and in life. Excellence in the pool is measured by progress in faster swimming times at competitions, as well as by practice attendance, to attend scheduled practices and events, to show up on time, work hard, and maintain a positive attitude. Excellence outside the pool is measured by participation in fundraisers to help support the team; community service; and by developing healthy friendships and achieving academic success in school. Hlst operates year-round. September through february is the short course (25 yard pool) season; april through july is the long course (50 meter pool) season. March and august are regional competitions; pacific northwest sectionals in march; western zones in august. Qualified swimmers travel to those meets accompanied by coaching staff and chaperones. During the short course season, hlst served 72 swimmers of all skill levels and ages 6-18, while long course swimmers totaled 75. The team hosted two home meets with 298 and 280 swimmers participating, respectively. Hlst operates at two local pool facilities…
$164,221 spent$59,892 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,221.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $119k to $172k (+44%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $74 → $66.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323 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.
Organizations like HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM: 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 HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM?
- HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $323 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($323). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $323 in grants to HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $323 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELENA LIONS SWIM TEAM 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 1 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