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CINE BILLINGS

CINE BILLINGS (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,043 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($270,000). 7 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 FY2024
$2.1M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$479k
Net assets
$2.0M
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Cine Billings does

Mission

To provide a venue for independent cinema and cultivative culture in billings, montana.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cine Billings was able to serve its community in 2024 by bringing some of the best film, art and culture to billings. These films, concerts and and events would not have been possible without the support of our community, donors and grants from science on screen along with some grants provided to help expand our operations and offerings at art house cinema and pub. In total, we saw 39,000 tickets sold to films, events and concerts and provided mulitple free offerings for everyone to enjoy.

    $1,556,409 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,556,409.

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 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($242k) Net assets 100 ($192k)2018 Revenue 171 ($534k) Expenses 175 ($424k) Net assets 157 ($301k)2019 Revenue 270 ($842k) Expenses 215 ($520k) Net assets 325 ($623k)2020 Revenue 184 ($572k) Expenses 196 ($475k) Net assets 376 ($721k)2021 Revenue 283 ($882k) Expenses 184 ($446k) Net assets 603 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 386 ($1.2M) Expenses 322 ($778k) Net assets 824 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 341 ($1.1M) Expenses 406 ($981k) Net assets 865 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 661 ($2.1M) Expenses 699 ($1.7M) Net assets 1056 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (661)Expenses (699)Net assets (1056)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.3M (+47%).

$203k
$303k
$639k
$730k
$1.2M
$1.6M
$2.3M
$2.3M
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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: 2020 19% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

45% of CINE BILLINGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$70k
’17
$109k
’18
$322k
’19
$98k
’20
$436k
’21
$424k
’22
$79k
’23
$365k
’24
2.0
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.

Chief executive

Matthew Blakeslee

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed8119912121111
Joined·+6+0+0+4+0+4+3
No longer listed·3201053
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $2k.

5 of 9 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 CINE BILLINGS’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

CINE BILLINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 CINE BILLINGS.

56%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 57% · 2021 38% · 2022 82% · 2023 51% — 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

25% of CINE BILLINGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 CINE BILLINGS'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 $95k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Montana funders.

MT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $384k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CINE BILLINGS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CINE BILLINGS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Art House Properties LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds CINE BILLINGS?
CINE BILLINGS (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,043 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($270,000). 7 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 CINE BILLINGS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $479,043 in grants to CINE BILLINGS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CINE BILLINGS?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CINE BILLINGS 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 9 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