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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Free Verse Project does
Mission
Free verse is a nonprofit organization in montana bringing arts- and literary-based programming to incarcerated youth and adults and youth in psychiatric care. We have provided this programming for over eleven years.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Residential treatment centers, offers monthly workshops at st. Patrick's hospital for both inpatient and outpatient adolescents, as well as inpatient adults. Through twelve in-person workshops each month, we reached 291 new students, providing them with valuable opportunities for creative expression while receiving psychiatric treatment.
$17,641 spentof which $25,200 as grants42% of program spendingJdcs/shelter care, operates across multiple locations, including the missoula county juvenile detention center, billings juvenile detention center, billings shelter care, and pine hills correctional facility. This program includes eight monthly in-person workshops in missoula and two virtual workshops each month at both the billings juvenile detention center and billings shelter care. Additionally, we host an extended-length monthly workshop at pine hills correctional facility. In total, 101 new students participated in our workshops, offering them creative outlets while incarcerated or in shelter care.
$17,258 spentof which $20,000 as grants41% of program spendingThe publications program produced three full-length anthologies: on the precipice (featuring work from pine hills correctional facility), a lot going on inside head, and dear future (which included contributions from students across all facilities). The publication of dear future was celebrated with a release party attended by numerous community partners. Each publication was distributed to the students involved, empowering them to see themselves as artists, writers, and experts on their lived experiences through seeing their own work published in print.
$6,702 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,601.
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.
Against its field
Free Verse Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Free Verse Project
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.
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.
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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.
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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 2024–2024), and the filings of 5 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