Montana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS
FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,785 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($25,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $845k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $146k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks does
Mission
Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks promotes and supports the programs of montana shakespeare in the parks (msip), which is an educational outreach program of montana state university. Support is provided through fundraising and serves the population of residents in the 65-town touring area on the five-state summer tour, and k-12 students in montana and wyoming served by shakespeare in the schools and montana shakes!Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks also supports msip through two direct mail campaigns, a giving day campaign, two in-person benefit events, and by securing several program grants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer tour: the 12-week summer parks tour brought free professional performances of henry v and as you like it to residents in 65 communities, consisting of approximately 21,600 audience members across five states (mt, id, nd, wy, and wa).Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks supports the only professional theatre touring program in the region that produces shakespeare's plays, the only company that offers its performances free to the public, ensuring accessibility to all, and the only company in america reaching as extensively into rural areas. Montana and its surrounding states are largely rural and underserved.through all the programs, Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks helps to address a community and region-wide need for high-quality theatrical programs and educational outreach not met by other organizations. By providing relevant, polished classical productions free or at a reasonable cost, and by bringing performances directly to communities and schools across a five-state region, montana shakespeare in the parks helps to reduce the barriers of cost, distance, and perception that may discourage people from experiencing live professional theatre. Eighty…
$752,983 spentof which $718,000 as grants$106,945 earned by the program93% of program spendingShakespeare in the schools: brought an 80-minute production of richard iii to 50 middle and high schools across mt and wy, performing for 10,548 students and 580 adults. The daylong residencies included the performance, a q&a session, and a selection of participatory workshops designed to further explore the play, provide hands-on activities in theatrical disciplines, and support the arts and english language/literature curriculum.
$48,935 spent$37,050 earned by the program6% of program spendingMontana shakes!: adapted for elementary students, shakes! Engages the youngest audiences in shakespeare at a time when they are most receptive to learning. The 2025 tour brought faithful friends, an adaptation of shakespeare's the two gentlemen of verona, to 60 elementary schools in mt and wy. The interactive performance and workshops reached 10,953 students and 881 adults.
$5,787 spent$57,913 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $807,705.
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 2021 to 2022, from $25k to $59k (+138%).
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.
75% of FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $24k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS’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
FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% 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 FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 42% — 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
FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS has grown faster than three-quarters 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 FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS
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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Montana State University · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS?
- FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,785 to it, the largest being Arts Midwest Incorporated ($25,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $145,785 in grants to FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS?
- Arts Midwest Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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