Montana · Nonprofit
BARE BAIT DANCE
BARE BAIT DANCE (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,596 to it, the largest being Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation ($45,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $283k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Bare Bait Dance does
Mission
Bare Bait Dance with westside theater commits to nurturing the development, education, and presentation of the performing arts in western montana, particularly celebrating dance and contemporary performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bbd professional company season: the westside theatre/Bare Bait Dance season includes five main stage productions, featuring new works by our in-house company as well as performances by acclaimed guest artists. We provide paid performance opportunities to highly skilled professional dancers, nurturing their creative work as choreographers and facilitating opportunities to expand as teachers while collaborating with artists of other disciplines. We enrich montana with high-quality, original dance performances for thousands of audience members each year.
$118,883 spent$133,731 earned by the program55% of program spendingRentals and revenue share: westside theater is an ideal space for artists of all disciplines to teach, collaborate, and share their work. It also is a multi-use venue to host special events that need a little more pizzaz! We offer a collaborative space for local and touring artists to showcase their work, grow their projects, and share in their success while deepending the community's appreciation for contemporary dance through performances by national guest artists/companies presented by the westside theater. Our organization shares in the production risk because we believe in supporting our fellow makers. Through artist lab, we empower professional movement artists with affordable studio access and profide 100 hours at no cost for rehearsal and process time through bare-summer residency experience.
$48,633 spent$44,063 earned by the program22% of program spendingMovement education and community opportunities: we connect 100's of western montanans with diverse dance and movement experiences to train, perform, and/or be in artistic dialogue. We welcome everyone from teens to older adults, novices to professionals, through our bbd company class, montana dance educators (mode program) in missoula high schools, and our offerings at westside theater-reveal masterclass series and weekly community classes and performance opportunities.
$48,633 spent$15,513 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $216,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3k to $76k (+2827%).
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.
33% of BARE BAIT DANCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Joy French
Executive director
Board chair
Shannon Flanagan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $4k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BARE BAIT DANCE’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
BARE BAIT DANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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: 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
91% of BARE BAIT DANCE's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BARE BAIT DANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BARE BAIT DANCE
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARE BAIT DANCE: 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 BARE BAIT DANCE?
- BARE BAIT DANCE (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,596 to it, the largest being Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation ($45,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARE BAIT DANCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $59,596 in grants to BARE BAIT DANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARE BAIT DANCE?
- Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $45,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARE BAIT DANCE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing