Four Corners Community Foundation

Overview

Mission

Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

What it reported funding in 2023

The foundation reported 3 grants totaling $37,000. The stated grant purpose was unrestricted grant.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200482770
IRS 990-PF coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2023
Headquarters
Bozeman, MT, USA
Phone
4065797886
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Water Resource, Wetlands Conservation and Management

The verdict

MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filing clearly reports transactions involving insiders. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
  • Cost Efficiency: 7
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 86
  • Endowment Health: 87

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: Limited

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 7; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Grants to individuals: Pass
    • Grants to organizations: Pass
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 78

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 27.89; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Payout: Filed payout detail
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 87th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.