Montana · Nonprofit
BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC
BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,800 to it, the largest being The Picard Family Foundation ($146,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Beargrass Writers Workshop Inc does
Mission
Beargrass writers' workshop gives writers from all walks of life the opportunity to create and grow together, establishing an artistic community of writers producing original works through workshops, readings, craft talks, one-on-one consultation, and individual time and space to write.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Beargrass holds its annual, late-summer writing retreat at the historic e bar l ranch in greenough, montana. This retreat brings together 15-20 nationally-recognized authors/editors/agents with about 50 participating writers (some overnight guests, some day-passers) to create a community of writers through four days of workshops, readings, craft talks, one-on-one manuscript consultations, and time to write. The beargrass retreat has filled a writing-retreat gap in montana, a state with a rich literary history, yet no other such writing retreat. In just five years, beargrass retreats have gathered writers and participants from a dozen states; our visiting writers have been roughly split between men and women, representing literature of the american west, the environment and native american issues, as well as non-regional topics of family, coming-of-age and gender identity.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $21k to $2k (−90%).
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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $4k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP 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
BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
27% 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 BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 80% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC?
- BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,800 to it, the largest being The Picard Family Foundation ($146,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $206,800 in grants to BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP INC?
- The Picard Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $146,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEARGRASS WRITERS WORKSHOP 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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