Montana · Nonprofit
SPARROWS VINE
SPARROWS VINE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,300 to it, the largest being SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,190). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Sparrows Vine does
Mission
Parenting and Pregnancy Resource Center
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Story Time and Play Time are weekly family support programs that encourage early childhood development and foster community among parents. Activities include guided reading, interactive play, and opportunities for peer connection. In 2025, these programs recorded 276 family visits.
$6,816 spentof which $3,000 as grants42% of program spendingThe Boutique provides essential material assistance to families with young children, helping meet practical needs and promote child well-being. Items distributed include clothes, diapers, wipes, car seats, cribs and other young child necessities, and even some luxury items. In 2025, the Boutique served families in our community on 44 occasions.
$7,634 spent47% of program spending'BrightCourse' is an online education program offering classes on pregnancy, parenting, and practical life skills such as budgeting. As part of our 'Earn While You Learn' program, participants can earn points toward items not available in the boutique. In 2025, 12 participants engaged in classes, completing nearly 100 lessons.
$1,801 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,251.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $54k (+3%).
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.
92% of SPARROWS VINE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ruth Bergen
Executive Director
Board chair
Kim Van De Riet
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 SPARROWS VINE’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
SPARROWS VINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 SPARROWS VINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of SPARROWS VINE's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
SPARROWS VINE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SPARROWS VINE
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.
Public support
85%
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 SPARROWS VINE: 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 SPARROWS VINE?
- SPARROWS VINE (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,300 to it, the largest being SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,190). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROWS VINE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $95,300 in grants to SPARROWS VINE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROWS VINE?
- SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROWS VINE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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