Montana · Nonprofit
ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION
ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,716,712 to it, the largest being Charles M Bair Family Trust ($1,112,204). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Alberta Bair Theater Corporation does
Mission
To bring the excitement of the performing arts to the big sky country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promotion and production of world class, artistically and culturally diverse performances for the enrichment of the community and surrounding region. These performances included music, dance and world music. These performances/events served patrons and artists. Patrons attending events come from a large geographical area that is bounded by the continental divide to the west, the canadian border to the north, the north dakota state line to the east and includes a large portion of northern wyoming.
$1,519,476 spent$1,104,267 earned by the program71% of program spendingCommunity outreach and arts education. The theater conducted community outreach and education event including a musical demonstration that reached young students and native americans. Alberta bair theater's access to the arts program collaborated with social service agencies to provide free tickets to their clients who struggle with physical, economic and social challenges.
$256,813 spent$186,637 earned by the program12% of program spendingProvide venue and services to community organizations for performances, meetings and fundraising events.
$363,818 spent$264,401 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,140,107.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $7.5M to $15M (+101%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jan Dietrich
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $53k → $145k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Johnson Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
25% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 33% · 2019 74% · 2020 25% · 2021 43% · 2022 77% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $893k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION?
- ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,716,712 to it, the largest being Charles M Bair Family Trust ($1,112,204). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,716,712 in grants to ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION?
- Charles M Bair Family Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,112,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing