Montana · Nonprofit
CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA
CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $325 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($325). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $325
- Net assets
- $139k
What Clay Arts Guild of Helena does
Mission
The guild's mission is to promote the ceramic arts within helena and the surrounding community by providing support and education through individual and community workspace, classes, seminars and shared resources. We are governed by an all-volunteer eight member board which meets about once a month. Each may an annual membership meeting is held to perform annual elections, information sharing and for major business decisions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The guild is at full capacity with 104 members and a long waiting list to join. A variety of classes were offered to both members and community clay artists in 2025. The guild continued its long collaboration with the veterans administration hospital offering weekly therapeutic pottery classes for veterans receiving both inpatient and outpatient services. In 2024 the guild provided approximately 150 bowls to helena food share for their annual empty bowls fundraiser, and a similar number to the missoula community food bank for their empty bowls full souls fundraiser. Until its closure late in 2024, the guild continued its tradition of hosting pottery enrichment sessions for clients graduating from the career training institute. Members of the guild again made and donated planters for the rocky mountain head start spring fundraiser. The guild also donated approximately 300 pieces of pottery to the alberton montana senior community center for an upcoming fundraiser. Two years ago, donated pottery from the guild to the alberton public library resulted in approximately $3,000 raised during their fundraiser. The guild also hosts a one-night retreat for the margaret stuart youth homes…
$73,847 spent$11,578 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe guild managed an extremely successful month-long holiday store this year that allowed members to sell their pottery in a rented location to the community at very reasonable prices. The store helps to raise awareness of the guild while offering members an opportunity to meet supportive community members and display and sell their art. Community members enjoy having a one stop shop to look for creative holiday gifts they can share with family and friends. Additionally the members made and donated many boxes of pottery to support fundraising events held by the alberton library and senior center, westmont helena, mending waters montana and the townsend stoke/food bank. The guild hosted free team building "play with clay" evenings for staff from the margaret stuart yout homes and from the intermountain children's homes. The carroll college engineers without boarders club hosted a very successful fundraising event for a service trip to guatemala combining approximately 75 pieces of donated pottery from teh guild wit hother communit ydonations to raffle gift baskets. On several occasions, the guild has waived membership fees for members struggling with health and/or financial issues.
$76,211 spent$92,206 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $150,058.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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 $104k to $143k (+37%).
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.
19% of CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $59 → $61.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA’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
100% of CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325 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.
Against its field
CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA?
- CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $325 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($325). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $325 in grants to CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLAY ARTS GUILD OF HELENA 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 2020–2024), 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