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.
Against its field
MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 56% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Missoula Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Markovich Family Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Max and Betty Swanson Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Missoula Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMT · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Markovich Family Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDE · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Max and Betty Swanson Foundationlocalportfolio matchMT · funds 42 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Red Ants Pants Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William and Lorene Nefsy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerry Metcalf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zeller-Knowles Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater Montana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Providence Health & Services - Montanashared funderslocalWA · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing