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BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION

BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BROWNING KIMBALL FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$62k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$423k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Blaine County Wildlife Museum Foundation does

Mission

To establish and operate the blaine county wildlife museum with the intent to provide quality wildlife museum exhibiting montana wildlife in their natural habitats, complete with audio and visual enhancement.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Establishment & operation of the blaine county wildlife museum and to provide an educational and enjoyable museum exhibits.

    $64,975 spent$13,682 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $64,975.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($156k) Expenses 100 ($117k) Net assets 100 ($563k)2018 Revenue 50 ($77k) Expenses 86 ($100k) Net assets 96 ($540k)2019 Revenue 17 ($27k) Expenses 88 ($102k) Net assets 83 ($465k)2020 Revenue 19 ($29k) Expenses 78 ($91k) Net assets 72 ($403k)2021 Revenue 41 ($64k) Expenses 68 ($79k) Net assets 69 ($388k)2022 Revenue 100 ($156k) Expenses 64 ($75k) Net assets 83 ($469k)2023 Revenue 18 ($27k) Expenses 56 ($65k) Net assets 77 ($432k)2024 Revenue 40 ($62k) Expenses 60 ($70k) Net assets 75 ($423k)
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Revenue (40)Expenses (60)Net assets (75)Peer revenue range

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 $389k to $470k (+21%).

$564k
$541k
$466k
$403k
$389k
$470k
$432k
$424k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
−$23k
’18
−$75k
’19
−$62k
’20
−$15k
’21
$81k
’22
−$38k
’23
−$9k
’24
15
months of
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.

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Listed99998777
Joined·+0+5+3+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0531100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · below the median
Months of reserve14.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MT

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: 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 BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BROWNING KIMBALL FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
BROWNING KIMBALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLAINE COUNTY WILDLIFE MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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