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Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc

Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,934 to it, the largest being National Film Preservation Foundation ($39,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$44k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$42k
Net assets
$9k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc does

Mission

Support community arts and artists

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The Imagine Butte Resource Center is a gathering place for artists and creatives in Butte. It is an educational art center with educational workshops, author readings, film screenings, and community hangouts. It is home to the Foreground Gallery a non-commercial art gallery that has exhibited the work of both local and international artists and the IBRC print studio which provides printmaking equipment for public access.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2020 Revenue 66 ($44k) Expenses 74 ($44k) Net assets 110 ($9k)
20192020
Revenue (66)Expenses (74)Net assets (110)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 2019 to 2020, from $10k to $9k (−5%).

$10k
$9k
20192020
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.

2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’19
$818
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $26.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Phoenix Arts Alliance 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

Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

94% 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 Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 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

Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.

MT
CA

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

’20
’21
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−34% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

Organizations like Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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 Phoenix Arts Alliance 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc?
Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,934 to it, the largest being National Film Preservation Foundation ($39,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,934 in grants to Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Phoenix Arts Alliance Inc?
National Film Preservation Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $39,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Phoenix Arts Alliance 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), 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