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ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,346 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($287,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$312k
Revenue FY2025
12
Funders on record
$526k
Grants received
$110k
Net assets
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%

Against its field

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Months of reserve5.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($204k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2018 Revenue 103 ($237k) Expenses 129 ($263k) Net assets 21 ($7k)2019 Revenue 244 ($562k) Expenses 212 ($432k) Net assets 416 ($137k)2020 Revenue 102 ($235k) Expenses 136 ($277k) Net assets 290 ($95k)2021 Revenue 209 ($483k) Expenses 223 ($454k) Net assets 379 ($125k)2022 Revenue 201 ($463k) Expenses 221 ($449k) Net assets 420 ($138k)2023 Revenue 247 ($571k) Expenses 274 ($557k) Net assets 462 ($152k)2024 Revenue 141 ($324k) Expenses 191 ($389k) Net assets 266 ($88k)2025 Revenue 135 ($312k) Expenses 143 ($290k) Net assets 333 ($110k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (143)Net assets (333)Peer revenue range

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: 2017 1% · 2018 16% · 2019 0% · 2020 27% · 2021 4% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 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.

$27k
17
$26k
18
$130k
19
$42k
20
$29k
21
$14k
22
$14k
23
$64k
24
25
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $68k → $27k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)7% 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE’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

ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

55%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 51% · 2019 43% · 2020 54% · 2021 72% · 2022 48% · 2023 74%growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT
NV
CA

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

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Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: 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 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE?
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE (Montana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,346 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($287,400). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $526,346 in grants to ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE?
DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $287,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing