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LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC

LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being LEROY AND CLARIS STRAND FOUNDATION ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$176k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$53k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Little Belt Cowboys Association Inc does

Mission

To promote the little belt rodeo for the local and state ranching communtities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarship for belt high school students

    $179,166 spentof which $4,350 as grants$105,140 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,166.

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 ($96k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 85 ($81k) Expenses 87 ($87k) Net assets 13 ($890)2019 Revenue 97 ($93k) Expenses 90 ($91k) Net assets 48 ($3k)2020 Revenue 15 ($14k) Expenses 10 ($11k) Net assets 105 ($7k)2021 Revenue 138 ($132k) Expenses 99 ($99k) Net assets 579 ($40k)2022 Revenue 144 ($138k) Expenses 136 ($136k) Net assets 602 ($42k)2023 Revenue 162 ($155k) Expenses 137 ($138k) Net assets 845 ($59k)2024 Revenue 184 ($176k) Expenses 180 ($181k) Net assets 769 ($53k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (180)Net assets (769)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 2020 to 2021, from $8k to $41k (+384%).

$12k
$6k
$5k
$8k
$41k
$42k
$59k
$53k
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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

40% of LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
−$6k
’18
$2k
’19
$4k
’20
$33k
’21
$2k
’22
$17k
’23
−$5k
’24
3.2
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed9999999
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·001001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
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'18
'19
'21
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC’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 LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Montana out of state home

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

LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC?
LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,500 to it, the largest being LEROY AND CLARIS STRAND FOUNDATION ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,500 in grants to LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC?
LEROY AND CLARIS STRAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC 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