Montana · Nonprofit
Project Forty Nine
Project Forty Nine (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,713 to it, the largest being PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,713). 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
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Project Forty Nine does
Mission
We build welcoming spaces where people of all ages can connect learn and create. We believe in fostering confidence innovation and community resilience through mentorship skill-building and meaningful intergenerational relationships
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization filed Form 990-N in prior years. As this is the organizations first Form 990-EZ filing all program services are being described for the first time. Program activities were ongoing in prior years but not previously reportable on Form 990-N
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Project49 owns the historic Teslow Grain Elevator built 1906 listed on the National Register of Historic Places at 711 E. Park St. Livingston Montana. In 2025 the organization continued active renovation of the building as its future permanent home engaging Gyde Architects AE Dynamics structural engineers and Sugar Ditch as general contractor. Work was funded in part by the Montana State Historic Preservation Office historic preservation grant.
$138,659 spent54% of program spendingStudio49 operates a free open-access community makerspace and art studio in downtown Livingston Montana. Programming includes weekly community art and technology nights youth after-school drop-in hours homeschool enrichment sewing classes summer camps workshops in woodworking bookbinding candle making and other skills and community-hosted events. The organization also completed construction of a custom trailer for a fellow nonprofit organization. Programming served participants ranging from infants to age 90+ with a focus on low-income youth and families in Park County
$119,285 spent$30,715 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $257,944.
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 Project Forty Nine’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 Project Forty Nine'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. $19k 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
Project Forty Nine runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Project Forty Nine
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Project Forty Nine: 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 Project Forty Nine?
- Project Forty Nine (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,713 to it, the largest being PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,713). 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 Project Forty Nine have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,713 in grants to Project Forty Nine.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Forty Nine?
- PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Forty Nine 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 2025–2025), 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