Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC
MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,900 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trustshared funders
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio match
- Providence Health & Services - Montanashared funders
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.
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.
14% of MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC’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
MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trustshared fundersMT · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- National New Play Network Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Providence Health & Services - Montanashared fundersWA · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shubert Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Bay Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roy Cockrum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater Montana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Cushman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC
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
Public support
100%
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 MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC: 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 MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC?
- MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,900 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $147,900 in grants to MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $142,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA ACTORS THEATRE INC 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 3funders 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