Montana · Nonprofit
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,450 to it, the largest being JOHN & KATHY CONNORS FOUNDATION ($83,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Albert & E Bender Foundation Inclocal
- Burning Man Projectportfolio match
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $666.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL’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
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% — 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
KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
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 400 organizations that share them.
- Albert & E Bender Foundation InclocalMT · funds 8 organizations near you
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joy Engine Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artsnowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Recycling Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rails to Trails Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Art Stabilization Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Custer County Conference of the Society of St Vincent DepaullocalMT · funds 3 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL
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.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL?
- KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,450 to it, the largest being JOHN & KATHY CONNORS FOUNDATION ($83,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $168,450 in grants to KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL?
- JOHN & KATHY CONNORS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $83,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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. 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing