Montana · Nonprofit
THE SKOLA
THE SKOLA (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,147,993). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What The Skola does
Mission
We help students develop relationships inside and out, form healthy learning habits using the best academic research, and build connections in town and beyond where students feel responsible for their purpose and place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are changing the culture of learning by pairing what to know with how we grow over the last year The Skola has continued to grow through meaningful community connection and fundraising momentum. Thanks to the generous donation of our new campus in june, our school community came together at the end of 2024, raising over 200,000 to support essential improvements and bring our programming together on one site. We engaged in strategic conversations with the whitefish community foundation to prepare for applying for granted funds and participating in their annual community challenge event. In addition, The Skola has secured grant funding from numerous foundations over the past year as we expand our programs, and we continue to build strong relationships with funders who believe in our mission and vision. In january 2024 The Skola secured approximately 140,000 in student scholarship organization (sso) funds to further strengthen our programs. These milestones reflect more than just financial progressthey represent the deepening support of families, friends, and partners who are helping us build something lasting. The Skola was founded in 2021 to meet the community's growing need for…
$881,629 spent$697,377 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $881,629.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $218k to $3.5M (+1485%).
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.
31% of THE SKOLA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Jayson Peters
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE SKOLA’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 SKOLA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE SKOLA.
“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
100% of THE SKOLA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE SKOLA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SKOLA
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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SKOLA: 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 THE SKOLA?
- THE SKOLA (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,768 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,147,993). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SKOLA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,275,768 in grants to THE SKOLA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SKOLA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,147,993 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SKOLA 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 2022–2025), 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