Montana · Nonprofit
Augusta Area Historical Society
Augusta Area Historical Society (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,310 to it, the largest being OSCAR KENCK CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Augusta Area Historical Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Helena Area Community Foundationlocal
- Montana History Foundationportfolio match
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $250 → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Augusta Area Historical Society’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
Augusta Area Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
78% of Augusta Area Historical Society's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Helena Area Community FoundationlocalMT · funds 26 organizations near you
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlin Falck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Main Street Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museums Alaska Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rapp Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Homestead Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Augusta Area Historical Society
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Augusta Area Historical Society: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Augusta Area Historical Society?
- Augusta Area Historical Society (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,310 to it, the largest being OSCAR KENCK CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Augusta Area Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,310 in grants to Augusta Area Historical Society, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Augusta Area Historical Society?
- OSCAR KENCK CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Augusta Area Historical Society 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing