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FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC

FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $164,628 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($164,628). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$34k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$165k
Net assets
$295k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Friends of the Pioneer Museuminc does

Mission

Provide support for museum in valley county, montana

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supported museum in valley county, mt

    $8,023 spentof which $8,023 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,023.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($224k)2018 Revenue 69 ($42k) Expenses 158 ($21k) Net assets 110 ($245k)2019 Revenue 51 ($31k) Expenses 203 ($27k) Net assets 112 ($250k)2020 Revenue 58 ($36k) Expenses 2 ($296) Net assets 127 ($285k)2021 Revenue 37 ($23k) Expenses 630 ($82k) Net assets 101 ($226k)2022 Revenue 44 ($27k) Expenses 9 ($1k) Net assets 112 ($251k)2023 Revenue 43 ($26k) Expenses 59 ($8k) Net assets 120 ($270k)2024 Revenue 57 ($34k) Expenses 70 ($9k) Net assets 132 ($295k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (70)Net assets (132)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $711k to $774k (+9%).

$616k
$675k
$689k
$711k
$774k
$732k
$748k
$798k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$21k
’18
$5k
’19
$35k
’20
−$59k
’21
$25k
’22
$18k
’23
$25k
’24
317
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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Listed77556556
Joined·+1+0+0+1+0+0+2
No longer listed·1200101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $22k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC?
FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $164,628 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($164,628). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $164,628 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC?
MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $164,628 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PIONEER MUSEUMINC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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