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MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $981,245 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$158k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$981k
Net assets
$62k
9/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Mountain Time Arts does

Mission

Mountain Time Arts (MTA) drives change through the cultivation of bold and engaging public art projects and programs that explore the history, culture and environment of the Rocky Mountain West and ist Sovereign Nations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Published a book with three essays that promote the values of water in the Headwaters of the Missouri River watershed. One thousand copies were distributed for free, to residents of Gallatin County,. Completed in September, 2025.

    $3,610 spent
    2% of program spending
  2. Indigenous Peoples' Day - October 12,2025 / Organized and led a celebration for 400 people in Burke Park, Bozeman, MT.

    $3,493 spent
    2% of program spending
  3. A. Completed and installed a public artwork, More Precious Than, in collaboration with the City of Bozeman and artist Janet Zweig. Mountain Time Arts produced two mosaics that were installed in City of Bozeman parks and are experienced by hundreds of visitors daily. Completed in August, 2025.

    $144,558 spentof which $23,500 as grants
    95% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $151,661.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($288k) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($69k)2019 Revenue 34 ($98k) Expenses 57 ($125k) Net assets 61 ($42k)2020 Revenue 54 ($156k) Expenses 54 ($120k) Net assets 113 ($78k)2021 Revenue 187 ($539k) Expenses 156 ($343k) Net assets 397 ($274k)2022 Revenue 240 ($691k) Expenses 358 ($788k) Net assets 257 ($178k)2023 Revenue 92 ($267k) Expenses 212 ($467k) Net assets -34 ($-23222)2024 Revenue 78 ($226k) Expenses 56 ($124k) Net assets 114 ($79k)2025 Revenue 55 ($158k) Expenses 79 ($175k) Net assets 89 ($62k)
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Revenue (55)Expenses (79)Net assets (89)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 2020 to 2021, from $86k to $277k (+223%).

$69k
$42k
$86k
$277k
$182k
$13k
$79k
$63k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 42% · 2023 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
’18
−$27k
’19
$36k
’20
$197k
’21
−$97k
’22
−$201k
’23
$102k
’24
−$18k
’25
7.5
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.

20182021202220232024
Listed510788
Joined··+1+5+4
No longer listed··444
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $181k.

6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS’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

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

42% 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 MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS.

31%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 45% · 2022 29% · 2023 36% — 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 8 states in all.

WA
MT
NY
MA
CO
MO
SC
GA

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

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’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $520k on record.

Federal$520k
grants $520kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$520k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

73%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS?
MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $981,245 to it, the largest being The Henry Luce Foundation Inc ($300,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $981,245 in grants to MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS?
The Henry Luce Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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