Montana · Nonprofit
YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT
YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,310,103 to it, the largest being Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc ($610,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $135M
What Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat does
Mission
The mission of ybgr foundation is to support, promote, advance and enable charitable, religious, and educational programs benefiting youth and adults with special needs. We champion the yellowstone boys and girls ranch - providing critical care, treatment, and education since 1957.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide funding for operation of yellowstone boys & girls ranch, inc., which works with more than 650 emotionally disturbed and special education youth by offering a continuum of mental health care and educational services.
$3,691,749 spentof which $3,691,749 as grants93% of program spendingProvide funding for ybgr building remodeling and repairs, miscellaneous kid needs and programs, scholarships, yellowstone academy curriculum and other programs.
$178,003 spentof which $178,003 as grants4% of program spendingProvide funding for spirtual life program at yellowstone boys and girls ranch meeting the spirtual needs of kids in various treatment programs.
$107,227 spentof which $107,227 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,976,979.
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 2020 to 2021, from $123M to $148M (+21%).
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.
65% of YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
William Hritsco
President/CEO
Board chair
Stella Ziegler
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $57k → $427k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT’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
YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 56% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
85% of YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT'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 $861k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT
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
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Yellowstone Foundation Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT?
- YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,310,103 to it, the largest being Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc ($610,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,310,103 in grants to YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT?
- Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT 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 26 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