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FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL

FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$682k
Net assets
$3.2M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Fort Peck Fine Arts Council does

Mission

To operate the fort peck theatre as a means of providing performing arts to northeast montana.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Performing arts production and promotion through the operation of the fort peck theatre.

    $334,183 spent$194,212 earned by the program
    81% of program spending
  2. Fundraising to provide the funds needed for the operation of the fort peck theater

    $44,004 spent$99,245 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Operation of concessions stand and the gift shop.

    $33,250 spent$75,000 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,437.

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 ($613k) Expenses 100 ($509k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 83 ($508k) Expenses 99 ($501k) Net assets 156 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 97 ($597k) Expenses 104 ($531k) Net assets 165 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 64 ($393k) Expenses 52 ($267k) Net assets 179 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 87 ($534k) Expenses 102 ($519k) Net assets 188 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 60 ($365k) Expenses 103 ($525k) Net assets 174 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 80 ($488k) Expenses 117 ($596k) Net assets 127 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 161 ($986k) Expenses 129 ($655k) Net assets 154 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 201 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($598k) Net assets 200 ($3.2M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (117)Net assets (200)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 2017 to 2018, from $1.6M to $2.5M (+55%).

$1.6M
$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.1M
$2.5M
$3.2M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 45% · 2021 43% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 5% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
’17
$6k
’18
$66k
’19
$126k
’20
$15k
’21
−$160k
’22
−$108k
’23
$331k
’24
$636k
’25
8.9
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.

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Listed7888888710
Joined·+2+1+0+3+0+0+3+3
No longer listed·11030040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $46k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL’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

FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

74% 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 FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL.

59%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 89% · 2019 71% · 2020 91% · 2021 61% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% — 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

100% of FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

74% of FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL'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 $176k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 3 states.

MT
MO
SC

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

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’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MT

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL?
FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,110 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $682,110 in grants to FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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