Montana · Nonprofit
FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC
FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,625 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $316k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Four Points Media Inc does
Mission
The corporation will produce the highest quality investigative and public service journalism and to provide important educational news stories to the people of indian country; the corporation will publish written works that not only entertain, but inform the public of the indigenous experience in authentic and valuable ways; the corporation will produce audio works to lift native voices across the country through various formats; and to engage in any lawful activities that will contribute to the foregoing purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our mission is to work independently and in collaboration to enrich the minds, spirits and lives of those in indian country by producing meaningful stories through the production of timely published written and audio works, through the news website four points press, four points productions podcast network, and four points publishing house. Our program service accomplishments include production of news articles, implementation of our legal ads program,and our year end donation drive.
$94,271 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $99k to $106k (+7%).
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.
97% of FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $38k → $132k.
From the IRS filings of FOUR POINTS MEDIA 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.
How concentrated its funding is
FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 71% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUR POINTS MEDIA 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
0%
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 FOUR POINTS MEDIA 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 FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC?
- FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,625 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $315,625 in grants to FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR POINTS MEDIA INC?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR POINTS MEDIA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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