Montana · Nonprofit
Free Verse Project
Free Verse Project (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,840 to it, the largest being MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH TRUST ($21,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Free Verse Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Missoula Community Foundationlocal
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio match
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of Free Verse Project’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
Free Verse Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Free Verse Project draws 64% 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Missoula Community FoundationlocalMT · funds 37 organizations near you
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Speaks Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stantonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bitterroot Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Poetry Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corecivic Foundation Theportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winston C & Surel L Mitchell Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gilhousen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Missoula CountylocalMT · funds 19 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Free Verse Project
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Free Verse Project: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Free Verse Project?
- Free Verse Project (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,840 to it, the largest being MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH TRUST ($21,400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Free Verse Project have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $79,840 in grants to Free Verse Project.
- Who is the largest funder of Free Verse Project?
- MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $21,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Free Verse Project 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing