Montana · Nonprofit
ALPINE ARTISANS INC
ALPINE ARTISANS INC (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,118 to it, the largest being SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($106,681). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Alpine Artisans Inc does
Mission
Promotion of visual and performing arts in the local area
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
2 valleys stage - performing arts - contracts with performers to bring performances to the seeley-swan valley.
$59,423 spent46% of program spendingCultural arts - sponsor author and artist workshops to discuss their work, to encourage interest in the arts.
$60,920 spent47% of program spendingScholarship program - provide funds for local youth to spend time with accomplished artists to encourage interest in the arts.
$9,854 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $130,197.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $32k to $64k (+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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $31k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALPINE ARTISANS INC’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
ALPINE ARTISANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 ALPINE ARTISANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 46% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 34% · 2022 51% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of ALPINE ARTISANS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $103k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding ALPINE ARTISANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$42k
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 ALPINE ARTISANS INC
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALPINE ARTISANS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPINE ARTISANS INC?
- ALPINE ARTISANS INC (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,118 to it, the largest being SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($106,681). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALPINE ARTISANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $215,118 in grants to ALPINE ARTISANS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPINE ARTISANS INC?
- SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $106,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPINE ARTISANS INC 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 7 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