Montana · Nonprofit
LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION
LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,027 to it, the largest being BERNICE BOONE FBO LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY ($411,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $437k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Lewis & Clark Library Foundation does
Mission
The Lewis & Clark Library Foundation works to enhance the quality of public library services to our community by encouraging and generating philanthropic gifts and bequests, with accountability to donors and the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supporting the mission of the library, by assisting with the purchase of books and other material for checkout; necessary equipment; and exploring ways to make the library a better and more robust public entity. Recent accomplishments include assisting the library with purchasing 4 book drops, 3 digital printers and a laser cutter
$151,733 spentof which $151,733 as grants86% of program spendingTHE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO BE A MAJOR SPONSOR OF THE Community Read & AUTHOR, PUBLIC READING EVENTS and Community Outdoor movies.
$24,142 spent14% of program spendingThe foundation also makes occasional contributions to other community non-profits. No such contributions were made during the year.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $175,875.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.4M (+25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $288 → $71k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION’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
LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 90% — 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
LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Organizations like LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
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 LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: 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 LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $437,027 to it, the largest being BERNICE BOONE FBO LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY ($411,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $437,027 in grants to LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- BERNICE BOONE FBO LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY is the largest funder on record, with $411,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEWIS & CLARK LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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