Montana · Nonprofit
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,682 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $456k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Spark Arts Ignite Learning does
Mission
Spark! Arts ensures equity and access to the arts for all K-8 students at Missoula County Public Schools in creative writing, dance, drama and theater, music, puppetry, story telling, and visual arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
o 5,249 MCPS PK-8 students experienced ongoing, diverse arts education, including professional performances, gallery visits, in-school artist residencies, and enhancement activities.o Collaborated with MCPS to design a new arts integration charter school, TEACH Academy to be a model and lab school for district teachers to learn arts integration strategies through observations and hands-on experience.o Delivered arts integration professional development to local teaching artists and all K-5 classroom teachers, led by nationally renowned trainers, including Focus 5 team and Glenis Redmond.o Presented a concurrent session, titled, Reigniting Joy: Sparking Creativity & Innovation in Teaching & Learning through a District-Wide Arts Integration Initiative, at a national conference.o Hosted IGNITE Arts Integration Conference and celebration to mark our 10-year anniversary of programming. 300 educators from across Missoula county, Montana and the country attended.curriculum content.community members to create a strategic district-wide arts integration plan, and to oversee implementation.
$451,396 spent$456,430 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $451,396.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $86k to $32k (−63%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 22% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Sienna Solberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $100k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING’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
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 70% — 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
91% of SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING: 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 SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING?
- SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,682 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($140,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $255,682 in grants to SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING 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 7 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