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KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST

KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being CUSTER COUNTY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$97k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$23k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Keeping Our Kids First does

Mission

The mission of rocks is to provide our community's children with a safe afterschool environment that enhances their skills and attributes though individualized attention, group activities, and enjoyable educational enrichment activities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provided materials, trips, nutritious food, and outings for approximatley 50 children during the entire year. Bus transportation from school to the program facility, and group trips.

    $113,626 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Rocks staff are paid to provide children with a safe aftershcool environment where staff provide children individualized attention, group activities, and educational enrichment activiities.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,626.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($110k) Net assets 100 ($86k)2018 Revenue 110 ($120k) Expenses 107 ($117k) Net assets 103 ($89k)2019 Revenue 84 ($91k) Expenses 97 ($107k) Net assets 85 ($73k)2020 Revenue 71 ($77k) Expenses 93 ($102k) Net assets 56 ($48k)2021 Revenue 89 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($110k) Net assets 41 ($36k)2022 Revenue 111 ($121k) Expenses 113 ($124k) Net assets 38 ($32k)2023 Revenue 127 ($139k) Expenses 114 ($124k) Net assets 54 ($47k)2024 Revenue 89 ($97k) Expenses 110 ($121k) Net assets 27 ($23k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (110)Net assets (27)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $73k to $48k (−34%).

$86k
$89k
$73k
$48k
$36k
$33k
$48k
$24k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,273 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$633
’17
$2k
’18
−$15k
’19
−$25k
’20
−$13k
’21
−$3k
’22
$14k
’23
−$24k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

201720182019
Listed7910
Joined·+2+1
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST’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 KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST has grown faster than half of the 1,043 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST

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

05Profile & governance

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.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST?
KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being CUSTER COUNTY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST.
Who is the largest funder of KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST?
CUSTER COUNTY CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEEPING OUR KIDS FIRST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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