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HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART

HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART (Montana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,110 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($326,387). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$760k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$657k
Net assets
$3.6M
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Hockaday Museum of Art does

Mission

To enrich the cultural life of our community and region and preserve the artistic legacy of montana and glacier national park.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Exhibits of art/museum membership benefits

    $196,037 spentof which $1,200 as grants$15,280 earned by the program
    92% of program spending
  2. Classes, workshops, and school tours for students

    $16,034 spentof which $1,875 as grants$43,655 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,071.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($358k) Expenses 100 ($348k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 88 ($316k) Expenses 89 ($310k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 92 ($330k) Expenses 112 ($390k) Net assets 98 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 108 ($387k) Expenses 79 ($275k) Net assets 102 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 92 ($329k) Expenses 86 ($299k) Net assets 103 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 117 ($419k) Expenses 90 ($315k) Net assets 106 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 78 ($279k) Expenses 103 ($359k) Net assets 104 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 212 ($760k) Expenses 100 ($348k) Net assets 117 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (212)Expenses (100)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.2M to $3.6M (+12%).

$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.0M
$3.1M
$3.2M
$3.3M
$3.2M
$3.6M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 2% · 2023 8% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$6k
’18
−$60k
’19
$111k
’20
$30k
’21
$104k
’22
−$80k
’23
$412k
’24
2.5
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.

Chief executive

Alyssa Cordova

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1620161823201520
Joined·+6+2+6+6+3+0+5
No longer listed·2641650
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $83k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART’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

HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

64% 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 HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART.

50%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 61% · 2019 59% · 2020 58% · 2021 68% · 2022 66% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

38% of HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART'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. Of the $240k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 7 states.

MT
NY
NJ
CA
DE
AZ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $417k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 30%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

78%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART?
HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART (Montana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,110 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($326,387). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $657,110 in grants to HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART?
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $326,387 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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