Montana · Nonprofit
Curious Society The Curious Society
Curious Society The Curious Society (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being CLYDE N DAY FOUNDATION ($1,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Curious Society The Curious Society does
Mission
Educate and support photographers working in the photojournalist tradition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Awarding grants to currently enrolled college students who are working towards a career in photojournalism. In 2022, The Curious Society awarded two $250 scholarships totaling $500 to two individuals pursuing an interest in photojournalism. In 2021, The Curious Society awarded 16 $250 scholarships totaling $4,000 to 15 individuals pursuing an interest in photojournalism.
$9,465 spent100% of program spendingAnnual event for members to learn more about photojournalism. Members, photojournalist, and guest speakers attended a one day event on October 22, 2021. Topics related to current events, goals and publications of the magazine, and get together for members to learn more about photojournalism. This annual event is intended for members to be immersed in photojournalism with established photojournalists featuring their work and speaking on topics relevant to the industry, behind the scenes footage of the processes involved in creating the magazine each quarter, and traditional journalistic ethics. The annual event for 2023 was postponed.
Publication of the Curious Society magazine: The Curious Society met its main goal of publishing its first edition magazine which consisted of 11x14 high quality print magazine that was delivered to subscribers starting in late November of 2021. The Curious Society magazine was sent to over 690 subscribers. The main goal of The Curious Society is to preseve the institutional knowledge photographers and editors need to produce great photojournalism, to raise the industry standards and quality of photojournalism published in the United States, to give opportunities for those wishing to pursue a career as a concerned photographer working in the photojournalistic tradition, and provide education on photojournalism to the public.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $9,465.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $192k to $175k (−9%).
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.
100% of Curious Society The Curious Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Curious Society The Curious Society’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
Curious Society The Curious Society draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
Curious Society The Curious Society's revenue fell 97% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Curious Society The Curious Society
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Curious Society The Curious Society: 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 Curious Society The Curious Society?
- Curious Society The Curious Society (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being CLYDE N DAY FOUNDATION ($1,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Curious Society The Curious Society have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,200 in grants to Curious Society The Curious Society.
- Who is the largest funder of Curious Society The Curious Society?
- CLYDE N DAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Curious Society The Curious Society 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 2021–2024), 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