Montana · Nonprofit
EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC
EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,250 to it, the largest being Humanities Montana ($8,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Express to Speak Inc does
Mission
To enhance critical thinking and emotional intellignece of young people through the creative processes of writing, reflection and expression.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Express to speak was able to expand its mission of "empowering youth through creative expression" to over five hundred students through out the state of montana in 2021. Express to speak was able to expand and innovate it's tool box by giving students the ability to create documentary films. In 2021 express to speak submitted three films on behalf of our students to the big sky documentary film festival. We look forward to more mission expansion in the years to come.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $22k (+16%).
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.
81% of EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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 EXPRESS TO SPEAK 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
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
EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 20,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,681 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC
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
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXPRESS TO SPEAK 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC?
- EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,250 to it, the largest being Humanities Montana ($8,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,250 in grants to EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPRESS TO SPEAK INC?
- Humanities Montana is the largest funder on record, with $8,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPRESS TO SPEAK 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2020–2021), 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