Montana · Nonprofit
BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc
BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,589 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($77,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Stock Farm Greater Ravalli Foundationlocal
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio match
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 51% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $14k.
1 of 12 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 BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company 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
BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 56% · 2019 68% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
65% of BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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. Your 12 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Stock Farm Greater Ravalli FoundationlocalMT · funds 14 organizations near you
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Performing Arts Professionalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council of Nonprofits Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Map Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan Scott Heyneman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006portfolio 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 BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc
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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company 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 BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc?
- BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,589 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($77,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $177,589 in grants to BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $77,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company 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.
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 12funders 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