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Who funds arts and culture in Montana

Arts and culture funding in Montana is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Abf Fund leads, and the money reaches 320 groups.

$126M
granted
320
organizations
39%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of arts and culture in Montana

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Montana, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc$15M2Whitefish Community Foundation Inc$9M3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$6M4Montana Community Foundation Inc$5M5National Philanthropic Trust$5M6Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation$5M7M J Murdock Charitable Trust$4M8Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$4M9Custer Battlefield Preservation Committee$4M10Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$3M

Arts and culture organizations in Montana that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

310 other arts and culture organizations$70M
Abf Fund$15MTinworks Art$4MBig Horn County Historical Society$4MArchie Bray Foundation$4M

How to find arts and culture funders in Montana

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Montana

    The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Montana are Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    61% of arts and culture money in Montana comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Montana.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Montana?
Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Montana, currently Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Montana from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Montana?
Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Montana, $15M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Montana?
$126M reached 320 arts and culture organizations in Montana, from 698 funders. 39% came from funders also based in Montana.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.