Montana · Nonprofit
CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,403 to it, the largest being LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION ($75,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Fort Benton Community Improvement Associationlocal
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio match
- North Country Library Systemportfolio 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.
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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
From the IRS filings of CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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
CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 57% · 2021 53% · 2022 81% · 2023 37% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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. 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 4 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fort Benton Community Improvement AssociationlocalMT · funds 9 organizations near you
- Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Country Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tocker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 2006 Edward S Rosenblum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arkansas Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Incportfolio 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 CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,403 to it, the largest being LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION ($75,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $123,403 in grants to CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC?
- LIPPARD-CLAWITER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOUTEAU COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 4funders 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