How much does Humanities Montana give?

Humanities Montana reported 4 itemized grants totaling $29,658, out of $69,012 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Humanities Montana fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (5%).

Who are Humanities Montana's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Montana ($99k), Crow Language Consortium Inc ($68k), MISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA ($58k).

Does Humanities Montana fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Humanities Montana?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana History Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.

Where is Humanities Montana based?

Humanities Montana is based in MT.

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Humanities Montana

Humanities Montana serves communities through stories and conversation. We offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans diverse history, literature, and philosophy.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 42%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $30k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $7,840
Largest grant, FY2025: $8,800
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 51; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $687k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Humanities Montana funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	3	$30k	33%
FY2024	12	$150k	42%
FY2023	8	$79k	50%
FY2022	11	$119k	55%
FY2021	51	$612k	76%
FY2020	16	$142k	69%
FY2019	3	$17k	0%
FY2018	12	$83k	75%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$799kEducation$196kRecreation & Sports$61kHuman Services$47kEnvironment$27kYouth Development$26kCommunity Improvement$24kScience & Tech$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Montana	$99,262	9	n/a
Crow Language Consortium Inc	$68,000	3	10%
MISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA	$58,000	5	5%
Msu Billings	$51,619	2	n/a
Big Sky Film Institute	$45,500	3	7%
Missoula Writing Collaborative	$40,275	3	8%
Montana History Foundation	$37,060	4	1%
Extreme History Project	$37,000	3	16%
Missoula Art Museum	$26,352	3	1%
From The Heart Productions	$25,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Humanities Montana by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Montana	$99,262	9	n/a
Crow Language Consortium Inc	$68,000	3	10%
MISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA	$58,000	5	5%
Msu Billings	$51,619	2	n/a
Big Sky Film Institute	$45,500	3	7%
Missoula Writing Collaborative	$40,275	3	8%
Montana History Foundation	$37,060	4	1%
Extreme History Project	$37,000	3	16%
Missoula Art Museum	$26,352	3	1%
From The Heart Productions	$25,000	2	1%
The University of Montana Foundation	$24,500	2	0%
Merlin Mediation Counseling & Consulting Inc	$23,500	3	17%
Elk River Arts & Lectures	$23,500	3	4%
Alpine Artisans Inc	$22,000	2	14%
Learning With Meaning Inc	$20,000	1	4%
Carter County Geological Society	$19,620	1	24%
City of Billings	$19,000	2	n/a
Friends of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum of Park County Inc	$19,000	2	16%
Chief Dull Knife College	$18,300	1	0%
Yellowstone Art Museum	$17,500	2	0%
Bitter Root Valley Historical Society Inc	$17,000	2	4%
A Voice Art Vision & Outreach in Community Education	$15,750	2	25%
Wild Rose Center	$15,500	2	n/a
World Affairs Council of Montana	$14,500	1	7%
Mitchif Heritage Keepers	$14,500	1	n/a
Perma Red LLC	$14,250	1	n/a
Carbon County Historical Society	$14,231	1	n/a
Montana State University	$13,300	2	n/a
Montana Art Gallery Directors Assoc	$11,000	1	17%
Schoolhouse History and Art Center	$10,000	1	10%
Wise Wonders Childrens Museum Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Lewistown Art Center	$10,000	1	7%
International Traditional Games Soc	$10,000	1	9%
Cascade County Historical Society	$10,000	1	4%
Glacier County Historical Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Maps Media Institute Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Aasaisst to Language Society	$10,000	1	17%
Freeflow Institute LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Northwest Montana Historical Society Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Flathead Library Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
Travelers Rest Preservation & Heritage Assoc	$10,000	1	n/a
Huntley Project Museum	$10,000	1	6%
Artemis Wildlife Foundation	$10,000	2	5%
Big Sandy Cultural Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Butte America Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Stillwater Historical Society	$10,000	1	5%
Uss Montana Committee Inc	$10,000	1	32%
The Paradise Center	$10,000	1	5%
Montana Playwrights Network	$10,000	1	n/a
Bozeman Art Museum	$10,000	1	5%
International League of Conservation Photographers	$10,000	1	2%
Center Pole	$10,000	1	0%
Mahchiwminahnahtik Chippewa and Cree Language Revitalization	$10,000	1	1%
Independent Feature Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass	$10,000	1	4%
Range Riders Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Mondak Heritage Center	$10,000	1	3%
Montana Jewish Project	$10,000	1	4%
Stillwater County	$10,000	1	n/a
Lewis & Clark Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Friends of Montana Pbs Inc	$9,000	1	0%
Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
River Arts & Books Corporation	$8,800	1	n/a
Montana Preservation Alliance Inc	$8,500	1	2%
Express to Speak Inc	$8,250	1	30%
Earthboy LLC	$8,000	1	n/a
The Futuro Media Group	$7,940	1	0%
Western Heritage Center	$7,900	1	2%
Butte Citizens for Preservation and Revitalization	$7,500	1	7%
The Friends of the Butte Archives	$7,500	1	17%
Dillon Friends of the Library	$7,300	1	n/a
Montana State Parks Foundation	$7,000	1	3%
Friends of Two Rivers Inc	$6,500	1	n/a
Mint Film Mt	$6,000	1	9%
Department of Public Health & Human Services	$6,000	1	n/a
The Roxy Theater	$6,000	1	1%
North-Missoula Community Development Corporation	$6,000	1	0%
Little Big Horn Productions	$5,169	1	n/a
The Language Conservancy Inc	$5,100	1	n/a
Fort Belknap Indian Community	$5,000	1	n/a
Fort Peck Community College	$5,000	1	0%
Wyoming Pbs Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a

Humanities Montana supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT52.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana History Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · The Greater Montana Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Potlatch Fund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Nations Development Institute

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Humanities Montana

How much does Humanities Montana give?: Humanities Montana reported 4 itemized grants totaling $29,658, out of $69,012 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Humanities Montana fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Humanities Montana's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Montana ($99k), Crow Language Consortium Inc ($68k), MISSOULA CULTURAL COUNCIL dba ARTS MISSOULA ($58k).
Does Humanities Montana fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Humanities Montana?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana History Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Humanities Montana based?: Humanities Montana is based in MT.