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RAISON DETRE

RAISON DETRE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE JODAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$122k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$83k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Raison Detre does

Mission

To provide communities with a unique view of movement and inspire love and cultivation of dance and music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To create professional dance productions that focus on stylized classical music, contemporary works, and involvement of other artists and organizations. We collaborate with musicians, composers, choreographers, visual artists, and a core dance ensemble. We provide dance education and multicultural opportunities and workshops.

    $109,489 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,489.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($121k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2024 Revenue 115 ($140k) Expenses 145 ($109k) Net assets 168 ($78k)2025 Revenue 101 ($122k) Expenses 157 ($118k) Net assets 179 ($83k)
202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (157)Net assets (179)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 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $78k (+67%).

$47k
$78k
$83k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of RAISON DETRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$46k
’23
$31k
’24
$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of RAISON DETRE’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 RAISON DETRE's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAISON DETRE receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15k to it.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like RAISON DETRE

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAISON DETRE?
RAISON DETRE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being THE JODAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAISON DETRE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to RAISON DETRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAISON DETRE?
THE JODAR FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAISON DETRE 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 2023–2025), 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