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RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION

RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,432 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($76,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$460k
Net assets
$345k
11/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Red Ants Pants Foundation does

Mission

The Red Ants Pants Foundation is organized to develop and expand leadership roles for women, to preserve and support working family farms and ranches and to enrich and promote rural communities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Music festival: the purpose of the red ants pants music festival is to educate the public on the skills and values that are the cornerstone to enriching rural montana. This is done through our demonstration area where traditional agricultural and work skills are taught, as well as our kids tent with educational activities. The festival also brings people together to experience white sulphur springs and a community celebration on a working cattle ranch. The event also raises funds for the Red Ants Pants Foundation.

    $951,146 spent$997,748 earned by the program
    83% of program spending

  2. Skills workshops: offering technical skill based workshops in timber skills and carpentry.

    $80,198 spent$20,830 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

  3. Rapf girls leadership program. Junior year high school girls from rural montana participate in a year long leadership program. It consists of three weekend long retreats, 3 webinars, a mentorship partnership, and a hometown community project. The program is designed to increase hope for our youth, pride in our rural communities, and strength and courage in their leadership.

    $56,773 spent
    5% of program spending

  4. Community grant cycle

    $51,444 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,139,561.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($860k) Expenses 100 ($752k) Net assets 100 ($243k)2018 Revenue 112 ($960k) Expenses 117 ($879k) Net assets 133 ($325k)2019 Revenue 92 ($790k) Expenses 113 ($850k) Net assets 108 ($264k)2020 Revenue 39 ($333k) Expenses 36 ($274k) Net assets 133 ($323k)2021 Revenue 122 ($1.0M) Expenses 124 ($935k) Net assets 179 ($436k)2022 Revenue 132 ($1.1M) Expenses 148 ($1.1M) Net assets 189 ($461k)2023 Revenue 143 ($1.2M) Expenses 166 ($1.3M) Net assets 184 ($448k)2024 Revenue 148 ($1.3M) Expenses 180 ($1.4M) Net assets 142 ($345k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (180)Net assets (142)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 2021 to 2022, from $447k to $563k (+26%).

$243k
$341k
$267k
$355k
$447k
$563k
$567k
$485k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 63% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

25% of RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$108k
’17
$81k
’18
−$61k
’19
$59k
’20
$112k
’21
$25k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$79k
’24
4.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Sarah Calhoun

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed777699109
Joined·+0+0+0+3+0+3+2
No longer listed·0010023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $9k → $85k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
3
5
4
9
8
10
5

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION’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

RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

43% 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 RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION.

17%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 82% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

59% of RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT
IL
NY
NJ
MO
DE
OK
GA
FL

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

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’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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

RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Montana

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Nationally

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 4%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pasture Productions LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION?
RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,432 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($76,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $460,432 in grants to RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $76,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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