Yellowstone Club Community Foundation

Analysis

Yellowstone Club Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bozeman, MT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Yellowstone Club Community Foundation reported income of $18.7m and spending of $4.8m, leaving 74% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $4.5m to $18.7m (+312%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 250%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Yellowstone Club Community Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within MT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona ($18.7m), NMDP Foundation ($18.7m) and Groundswell Fund ($18.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $342k (7.2% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $16.2m against liabilities of $584k, net assets of $15.7m.