Montana · Nonprofit
Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc
Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,005 to it, the largest being PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc does
Mission
BRCHT dba TNPT is a nonprofit stewardship partner to the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. The Trust for the Nez Perce Trail aims to support the preservation interpretation promotion and management of the Nez Perce Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Comprehensive inventory and assessment of interpretive and wayfinding signs sites facilities exhibits and monuments along the Trail incorporation of state DOT GIS sign data. Creation of interactive ArcGIS map of the signs sites facilities for Trail partner user review and input.update in real time identify gaps and signs needing replacement. Development of Sign Guidelines for placement of new signs to fill gaps.
$25,627 spent34% of program spendingStrategic Plan completion and implementation of organization development and operations recommendations in preparation for the Sesquicentennial of the Nez Perce Flight in 2027. Coordination of activities with other private nonprofit Trail partners the USFS and Nez Perce Tribe.
$28,322 spent37% of program spendingTrail promotion: updates to Trail Auto Tour Guides maps brochures and website. Acquisition of new photography. Distribution of materials to partners along the Trail in conjunction with partner meetings and Trail commemorative events.
$22,424 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $76,373.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kristine Komar
Executive Director Oct 2024-Mar 2025
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust 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
Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc draws 50% 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. $5 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.
Government funding Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $587k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$587k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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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
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 Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc: 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 Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc?
- Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,005 to it, the largest being PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,005 in grants to Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR THE NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM INC 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 Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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