Montana · Nonprofit
West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation
West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,568 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($56,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $311k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation does
Mission
To educate the public about the benefits of skiing as a lifelong endeavor. WYSEF sponsors and hosts races for skiers of all abilites and aids the local school ski team with coaching.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supported 21 members of the Junior Cross-county ski program (ages 7-18) by funding divisional membership fees,transportation expenses, race registration fees,and meals and lodging at divisional and national level competitions. That would be 3 Junior Qualifiers, the Rendezvous, Viking races, and an Intermountain Youth Championship. In addition to supporting our competitive skiers, we regularly had 20-30 students attending our afterschool ski program. At the elementary grades there were 3 classes per week who skied during school hours January through March.
$47,772 spentof which $950 as grants$20,727 earned by the program37% of program spendingHosted 5 racing events, registering 407 skiers and bikers. That was Inter Mountain Division Opener, a mountain bike biathlon, our local,fun SPAM cup, the ParaNordic Continental Cup,and a Biathlon Cup race,all supported,timed,and officiated by WYSEF volunteers.
$14,922 spent$35,941 earned by the program12% of program spendingWe provide grooming of the Community Trail System. We receive Federal RTP community grants to assist with the expense of paying the operator for his time and use of grooming equipment. The Community Trail System is used for an afterschool ski program for all students - not just ski team members.
$67,000 spent$20,000 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,694.
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.
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 $916k to $1.1M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 44% · 2019 60% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% · 2024 42% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Marc Sheppard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $15k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 West Yellowstone Ski Education 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
West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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
81% of West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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
West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $227k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$227k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation: 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 West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation?
- West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,568 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($56,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $144,568 in grants to West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Yellowstone Ski Education 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.
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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 2017–2025), 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