Montana · Nonprofit
Arts Without Boundaries Foundation
Arts Without Boundaries Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Arts Without Boundaries Foundation does
Mission
Arts Without Boundaries (AWB) facilitates workshops, community concerts, and lessons by performing and visual artists. Artists enlisted by the Foundation are professional performers and educators. AWB has initiated an ambitious plan to enhance artistic opportunities for Billings area students within the classroom and beyond. All students with an interest in the arts are supported and encouraged to participate. Classroom instruction, while vital, is not sufficient by itself - additional individual and small group instruction is necessary. AWB, in partnership with teachers and students, facilitates and funds classroom and after school instruction. A core principle of AWB is that access to the arts should be available to all students with an interest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
After school master class program: The goal of the after school program is to augment existing school programs and to enhance the experience of students. Billings currently has many talented music teachers giving one-on-one private lessons in their specialty area. This program is intended to place a much larger percentage of music students in front of these teachers. In these master classes, professional instructors of an instrument teach a group of students playing similar instruments. Students are able to discuss and play skills specific to that instrument. Also, during these sessions, students are divided into small mixed ensembles ranging from 5 to 15 members. The same group of professional instructors will be working with the ensembles. The ensembles concentrate on tone, blend, balance, intonation, phrasing, and many other concepts that are stressed in their school band or orchestra classes. Working in a much smaller setting affords the opportunity to delve into more detail than is possible in a classroom. Instruction is funded by AWB providing access for all area music students.
$6,300 spent59% of program spendingMentoring program: AWB, in partnership with the school music program, funds a program in which high school music students are matched with lower grade students offering instruction and encouragement. This program provides quality, low cost instruction. The high school students receive scholarships for their participation. This program provides a learning experience for the student instructors and a role model for the younger students. Additional instruction and oversight are provided by experienced teachers. The administration of this activity is coordinated by the school system and funded by AWB.
$4,340 spent41% of program spendingGuest artist program: The AWB Billings outreach program facilitates and funds a guest artist program that creates opportunities for students to experience concerts and classroom instruction by nationally recognized artists. Students receive individual and group instruction from the guest artists. While quality concerts come to Billings, many families cannot afford to purchase tickets for the entire family to attend. AWB concerts are funded by AWB and are complimentary to the community, enabling families to share the musical experience together. Guest artist concerts include student participation.
Loaned instrument program: AWB supports the importance of quality instruments for students. High quality instruments are easier to play, sound better, and last for decades. AWB funds the placement of quality instruments in the schools loaned instrument program.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,640.
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 2020 to 2021, from $77k to $57k (−26%).
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 Arts Without Boundaries Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Arts Without Boundaries Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
Arts Without Boundaries Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Arts Without Boundaries Foundation's revenue fell 94% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Arts Without Boundaries Foundation
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
33%
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 Arts Without Boundaries Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Arts Without Boundaries Foundation?
- Arts Without Boundaries Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arts Without Boundaries Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Arts Without Boundaries Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts Without Boundaries Foundation?
- THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts Without Boundaries Foundation 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.
Play a game about who funds Arts Without Boundaries →
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 1 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