Montana · Nonprofit
BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER
BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,859 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($254,652). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $375k
- Net assets
- $238k
What Bigfork Art and Cultural Center does
Mission
The bigfork art & cultural center's (bacc) mission is to serve as a creative, educational, and experiential hub for people of all ages. Bacc is committed to providing quality exhibitions, learning opportunities, diverse cultural offerings, opportunities for montana artists, and to preserving and sharing the history of the bigfork and northwest montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Bigfork Art and Cultural Center (bacc) continued to expand its role as a cultural, educational, and community hub for northwest montana. Through innovative programming, collaborative partnerships, and a strong commitment to accessibility, bacc provided a diverse range of exhibits, workshops, and cultural experiences to engage and educate over 5000 visitors and community members. A key focus in 2024 was broadening educational opportunities while maintaining affordable access for all ages. With continued grant support, bacc lowered program costs and expanded financial aid, allowing more youth, seniors, and underserved populations to participate. As a result, total program attendance grew significantly, with an increase in the number of classes, workshops, and cultural events. Youth engagement remained a priority, with the introduction of new steam (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) programs, digital arts workshops, and hands-on maker experiences in our expanded community makerspace. The flathead maritime archaeology project (fmap) also provided our local highschool students with opportunities to engage in the technologies to do underwater research,…
$94,076 spentof which $800 as grants$23,783 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $94,076.
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 2024 to 2025, from $82k to $238k (+191%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 54% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $57k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER’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
BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 84% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
80% of BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $74k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER
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
64% 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 BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER: 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 BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER?
- BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $374,859 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($254,652). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $374,859 in grants to BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $254,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER 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 13 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