Montana · Nonprofit
OLD TRAIL MUSEUM
OLD TRAIL MUSEUM (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being BOE BROTHERS FOUNDATION D A DAVIDSON TRUST CO ($19,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $457k
What Old Trail Museum does
Mission
To preserve, research, and interpret to the public through its collections, exhibits and programs the physical and cultural heritage of the rocky mountain front region in the state of montana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Old Trail Museum serves the public via its mission statement in the following ways: old north trail, blackfeet trapper/trader, cattlemen, sheepmen, alice gleason, metis, beadwork, grizzly bear, art studio, sheepwagon, and a.b. Guthrie displays; children's summer programs and gift shop. The Old Trail Museum serves the local area as well as adjacent communities and large numbers of tourists enroute to glacier national park north of choteau.2024 program service accomplishments:2024 was a resoundingly successful year for the Old Trail Museum. Among these many successes were: securing a full-time volunteer, the doubling of our old north trail tours, hosting the inaugural front range art association's old north trail art rendezvous, and hosting a reading of renouned author sally thompson's new book, disturbing the sleeping buffalo.in addition, otm's rocky mountain front interpretive center (rmfic) founded a new series of rocky mountain front geo tours, created a new ecology exhibit focused on the limber pine savannah, and procured a fully grown taxidermized trumpeter swan to accompany our lesser snow goose in the freezout lake waterfowl migration exhibit.new volunteer: the otm was…
$41,343 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,343.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $477k to $432k (−9%).
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.
56% of OLD TRAIL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of OLD TRAIL MUSEUM’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
OLD TRAIL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 OLD TRAIL MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of OLD TRAIL MUSEUM'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.
Against its field
OLD TRAIL MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OLD TRAIL MUSEUM
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.
Public support
93%
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 OLD TRAIL MUSEUM: 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 OLD TRAIL MUSEUM?
- OLD TRAIL MUSEUM (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,000 to it, the largest being BOE BROTHERS FOUNDATION D A DAVIDSON TRUST CO ($19,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLD TRAIL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,000 in grants to OLD TRAIL MUSEUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD TRAIL MUSEUM?
- BOE BROTHERS FOUNDATION D A DAVIDSON TRUST CO is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD TRAIL MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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