1776 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474532237
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Billings, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4066989025
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,508
- Expenses
- $156,942
- Assets
- $58,180
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- SCOTT ASPENLIEDER (Director)
- JAKE EATON (Director)
- TYLER SCHOTT (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Based in Billings, Montana the 1776 Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, seeks to improve government and politics by working to inform and equip the people of Montana to better evaluate policy options that uphold traditional American values, historic civil liberties, the Montana Constitution and the Constitution of the United States of America.
What it reported doing in 2025
1776 Foundation promotes 7 Programs to accomplish its mission. These include:1) Gadsden Flag license plate which Montanans can purchase when they register a Montana vehicle. Remains to be one of the best selling plates being an iconic symbol supporting liberty and the rugged independent American spirit. 2) Free Constitution Project provides free copies of the Montana Constitution to educators, parents, elected officials and the public. Unfortunately, most public schools do not offer such coursework and so we seek to fill this void to equip our citizens. We have distributed over 60,000 free copies. 3) Liberty Lessons a series of radio messages designed to give you a deeper understanding of the meaning and history of Montana and U.S. Constitutions. Delivered by exciting Montana political, business and community leaders. 4) Grant program supports like-minded Montana based organizations and has distributed over $100,000 in funding. 5) Bill of Rights hard card, the size of a business card, spells out the first 10 Amendments so you can take your rights with you everywhere you go! We have proudly shipped over 6,000 cards to 70 different Montana cities and 33 states.6) Liberty Invitation held its inaugural event in 2022 to bring together elected officials, political candidates along with business and community leaders to foster conversations about civic engagement. We were honored to have Senator Daines, Governor Gianforte, Attorney General Knudsen and many others join us for this great event.7) Montana Pulse is a new project that will conduct a series of public opinion polls several times per year. The results of each poll are made available for free to the media and the general public, so that all Montanans can keep a pulse on important issues and the elected officials leading our state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, and 22% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 62.1%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 62.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.