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THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION

THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$112k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$99k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What The Aj Blain Foundation does

Program

  1. Contributions to various philanthropic organizations.

    $43,125 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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 ($133k) Expenses 100 ($19k) Net assets 100 ($334k)2018 Revenue 125 ($166k) Expenses 966 ($183k) Net assets 95 ($317k)2019 Revenue 112 ($149k) Expenses 199 ($38k) Net assets 128 ($428k)2020 Revenue 123 ($163k) Expenses 1419 ($269k) Net assets 96 ($322k)2021 Revenue 25 ($33k) Expenses 1172 ($222k) Net assets 41 ($136k)2022 Revenue 17 ($23k) Expenses 375 ($71k) Net assets 26 ($88k)2023 Revenue 44 ($59k) Expenses 466 ($88k) Net assets 17 ($58k)2024 Revenue 53 ($70k) Expenses 509 ($97k) Net assets 9 ($32k)2025 Revenue 84 ($112k) Expenses 237 ($45k) Net assets 30 ($99k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (237)Net assets (30)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 $322k to $136k (−58%).

$334k
$317k
$428k
$322k
$136k
$88k
$58k
$32k
$99k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION’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

THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.

MT
MN
SC

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

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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

THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve26.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION?
THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,500 to it, the largest being ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,500 in grants to THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION?
ROSE FRANCIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE AJ BLAIN FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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