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NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION FOUNDATION

EIN 82-3070065 GARDINER, MT

Revenue 2025
$433,891
Expenses 2025
$281,386

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O11
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 166

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To work with the community to build sustainable support and enhance innovative educational opportunities for students, teachers and community members in partnership with Gardiner Public Schools.

  • Teacher HousingIn 2025, we remodeled a studio apartment into a one-bedroom apartment and added a washer and dryer. We received donations from Park County Community Foundation and Livingston Flooring to make this project happen.We developed the school property to accommodate new teacher housing.We added three two-bedroom, two-bath units, with lofts on the school propertyWe re-roofed our three-unit teacher house.Six Gardiner School employees continue to live in our subsidized housing.Connect! Grants2024-2025 school year: 19 Connect! Grant Applications received.For the 2024-2025 school year, we funded nineteen applications totaling $128,800.40.Larger projects included new lights and sound for the cafetorium, and a new fence around the football field.Mental HealthWe received a Connect! Grant application for Rural Resilience for $10,000 to support a behavioralist.We sponsored Brewfest and raised $8,281 for our 2025-2026 Mental Health grant to Rural ResilienceYear-End Donation Drive: Bleachers and New TrackIn October, NYEF was made aware that the bleachers could no longer be repaired and were unstable in many areasWe assisted the school with two Gardiner Resort Area District grants. One for the bleacher project and one for the track project.In the end, the school received funds from GRAD to replace the bleachers.Our year-end campaign raised an additional $9,297 to support the Track renovations scheduled for 2027.The bleacher project will take place in the summer of 2026, and we aim to raise enough money for the track project to take place in the summer of 2027.FundingNYEF received grant awards from the Park County Community Foundation, Greater Gallatin United Way, George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Foundation, Gardiner Resort Area District, Northwestern Energy, Whole Kids, Kars4Kids, plus private foundations and amazing local donors.

    Expenses $246,141 · Grants $128,800 · Revenue $38,776

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Laura Chastain

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $61,350
    From this org
    $61,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ryan Perkins

    Teacher Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • George Bumann

    Student Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kat Zeibig

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Miriam Watson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jessica Warren

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Koppelberger-Rogers

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Lloyd Krueger

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaitlin Person

    Student Rep.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Willa Fouts

    Teacher Rep

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $433,891
    Expenses
    $281,386
    Contributions
    $385,905
    Grants paid
    $128,800
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $656,414
    Expenses
    $235,261
    Contributions
    $614,366
    Grants paid
    $77,015
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $383,677
    Expenses
    $169,837
    Contributions
    $360,739
    Grants paid
    $29,778
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $620,780
    Expenses
    $274,347
    Contributions
    $602,502
    Grants paid
    $117,275

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $615,823
    Expenses
    $293,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $952,490

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $240,000
    Expenses
    $66,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $253,475

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $110,537
    Expenses
    $34,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,622

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $124,720
    Expenses
    $45,275
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,764

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017
Principal officer
Ashea Mills
Mailing address
Post Office Box 1085Gardiner MT 59030

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.