Montana · Nonprofit
RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS
RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,025 to it, the largest being BITTERROOT FUND ($227,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $327k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $529k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Random Acts of Silliness does
Mission
Random Acts of Silliness is an arts organization inspiring laughter and play in the gallatin valley. We build community by sparking whimsy and creativity in the young, and young at heart, through original and engaging art installations, theater productions, and Random Acts of Silliness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our theater programming offers a variety of FREE family-friendly performances to the community. The Magic Monster Show is a unique blend of improv comedy and puppetry guided by suggestions from children in the audience. RAS performed the Magic Monster Show for 1,550 attendees. In November, RAS produced its second annual Crankie Festival, engaging 7 artists in creating crankies and delighting more than 490 audience members with a form of storytelling that was new to most of them. All experiences were offered for free.
$94,419 spent$5,609 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe Cabinets of Curiosity at Story Mansion invited to visitors to immerse themselves in the curious collections of the mysterious Ravens Eye Society, a FICTIONAL club of collectors and explorers who traveled our world and beyond to gather the specimens contained in their magical cabinets of curiosity. The beautiful and interactive cabinets were created by REAL Montana artists and displayed throughout the historic Story Mansion. More than 7,550 visitors explored the cabinets over 3 weeks. 520 elementary and middle school students visited the installation and designed their own cabinets of curiosity. The installation was offered for free.
$61,078 spent28% of program spendingThe 5th annual Bumblewood Thicket Fairy Village was an enchanting public art installation containing 20 fairy homes and businesses created by Montana artists. Located in a city park, the village was free and open to the public. 30 volunteer docents put in 200 hours greeting more than 19,000 visitors over the course of three weeks at the end of summer. Approximately 500 visitors participated in the Build Your Own area by creating their own fairy houses. More than 6,000 visitors wrote letters to the fairies and 750 audience members attended the immersive magical fairy play! Both the fairy village and play were offered for free.
$59,925 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $215,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $28k to $37k (+32%).
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.
99% of RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $128k → $132k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS’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
RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 47% · 2023 38% — 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
RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS?
- RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $529,025 to it, the largest being BITTERROOT FUND ($227,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $529,025 in grants to RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS?
- BITTERROOT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $227,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing