Montana · Nonprofit
ARTEMIS INSTITUTE
ARTEMIS INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,500 to it, the largest being GLOBE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Artemis Institute does
Mission
The Artemis Institute is dedicated to encouraging and enriching educational activities that improve the understanding of the relationship between creativity and experiences of the natural world. The institute seeks to couple formal education with other non-classroom activities and projects to create a broader perspective for the student.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
History the institute began in 2003. From that time until 2015, a full-time educational program, remote studio, was offered in "immersion" architecture - design and build projects with an emphasis on community and nature - including backcountry trips, research, and focusing on sustainability. The institute partnered with montana state university, and students received college credits for taking these courses. Funds were raised through student tuition and donations from individuals and foundations. The organization had reduced operations from 2015 until 2021, with minimal activity focused on small community activity focused on the link between environmental and arts activities in the greater yellowstone region. This geographic area is often compared to the serengeti in africa, and is one of the last nearly whole temperate ecosystems on earth. Current Artemis Institute is currently focused on the development and growth of yellowstonian. Founder, lori ryker, provides operational support, pr activities, coordination for public events and presence at events for the online journal. She is a sounding board for the founder todd wilkinson for story direction and ideas for growth of the…
$3,383 spent21% of program spendingYellowstonian founded by todd wilkinson and gus o'keefe, and hosted by Artemis Institute was launched in april of 2024. In support of the community outreach longtime journalist todd wilkinson is the editor and lead journalist for yellowstonian, with additional collaborations from community members and scientist from the region and beyond. Yellowstonian is devoted to exploring vital issues shaping the future of the greater yellowstone ecosystem and other parts of the wildlife-rich west. Since it officially went live in mid-april 2025 as a special project of Artemis Institute, yellowstonian's main objective as a public interest, non-profit, conservation journalism site was to build its reach and credibility. With crucial seed money contributed to Artemis Institute as gifts by a handful of donors, yellowstonian, accessible at yellowstonian.org, enlisted a company to help design a fully-functional web site that featured stories made available free to readers and also easily put into circulation on social media channels. In the eight months of its operation in 2024, yellowstonian's quest to prove its concept included its three principal contributors electing not to take any…
$12,878 spent$95 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,261.
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 2023 to 2024, from $39k to $93k (+139%).
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.
100% of ARTEMIS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 ARTEMIS INSTITUTE’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
ARTEMIS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 ARTEMIS INSTITUTE.
“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
ARTEMIS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
Against its field
ARTEMIS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ARTEMIS INSTITUTE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 ARTEMIS INSTITUTE: 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 ARTEMIS INSTITUTE?
- ARTEMIS INSTITUTE (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,500 to it, the largest being GLOBE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTEMIS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $128,500 in grants to ARTEMIS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTEMIS INSTITUTE?
- GLOBE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTEMIS INSTITUTE 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 3 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