Montana · Nonprofit
MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION
MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE BILL & ROSEMARY GALLAGHER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $219k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $246k
What Missoula Fairgrounds Foundation does
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to preserve a place of community connection that renews curiosity in our rural roots while ensuring that iconic western montana traditions live for future generations. The organization supports capital campaign projects for building renovation and restoration as well as programming opportunities connected to the western montana fair , agricultural education and western sporting traditions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The primary focus of the program is support of a capital campaign to revitalize and rebuild the historic missoula county fairgrounds, preserving a place of community connection that renews curiosity in our rural roots and that will ensure that our most iconic western montana traditions live on for future generations. The vision shared by our community and stakeholders is to build a revitalized missoula county fairgrounds, bridging our urban vibrancy and rural heritage while safeguarding our food security. The addition of a new arena & granstands will provide experiential learning for children and adults alike, solidifying a future for agricultural education and western sporting traditions.
Other expenses: meals 350 accounting fees 790 taxes & licenses 41
$578,513 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $578,513.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $620k to $246k (−60%).
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.
93% of MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
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
MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 56% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION?
- MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE BILL & ROSEMARY GALLAGHER FOUNDATION ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION?
- THE BILL & ROSEMARY GALLAGHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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