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THE BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

EIN 81-0520589 BIG SKY, MT

Revenue 2024
$5,112,525
Expenses 2024
$4,828,585

Program services were 80.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C320
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 161404

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).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JOHN MCGUIRE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELIZABETH MCRAE

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUE ELLIOTT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRAD WEIRICK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY BAUCHMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RYAN BLECHTA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIKA FROUNFELKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MATT KIDD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHAD WILSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TIM MCKENNA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID HOUGH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TALLIE LANCEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTA TRAXLER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICK SULLIVAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIM KIRCHER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WHITNEY MONTGOMERY

    FORMER CEO

    Total calculated
    $195,453
    From this org
    $182,830
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,623
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $182,830
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,849
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,774
    Filer's total
    $195,453

  • MADELEINE FEHER

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $130,525
    From this org
    $115,887
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,638
    Hours/week
    40

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,112,525
    Expenses
    $4,828,585
    Contributions
    $4,007,452
    Grants paid
    $10,681
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,227,513
    Expenses
    $4,664,147
    Contributions
    $6,104,196
    Grants paid
    $12,080
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,774,025
    Expenses
    $4,132,961
    Contributions
    $5,500,457
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.