Montana · Nonprofit
New Agrarian School
New Agrarian School (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $29k
What New Agrarian School does
Mission
Craft education through intensive residential workshops and other programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, the school had two primary programs. The first consisted of eight blacksmithing classes during the summer, some running for two weeks with the rest running five days, and the second being the production of two 30-minute educational videos on blacksmithing techniques. The classes were a full eight hours each day and taught by some of the best instructors in the United States. Class subjects in 2025 were blacksmithing fundamentals, hammers and tongs, knives for the outdoors, forging from the natural world, tools for farm and garden, American axes, kitchen utensil design, and Zen and the art of hammer swinging. These workshops served the students in many ways, including: professional development for experienced craftsmen, introduction to the craft for novices, advanced development for avocational students, and training for folks who will go on to work at established shops around the country. The workshops are intensive and include some of the finest instructors in the nation to create deeply meaningful experiences for all participants.
$62,561 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,561.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $4k to $30k (+661%).
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.
37% of New Agrarian School’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Reed Miller
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 New Agrarian School’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 New Agrarian School's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
New Agrarian School runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like New Agrarian School
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Agrarian School: 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 New Agrarian School?
- New Agrarian School (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does New Agrarian School have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to New Agrarian School.
- Who is the largest funder of New Agrarian School?
- MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Agrarian School 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 2024–2025), 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