Montana · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES
THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,700 to it, the largest being JAMES AND CHLOE GILMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $359k
What The Friends of the Butte Archives does
Mission
The friends of the archives is a public benefit corporation, founded for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes. Primarily, the friends promotes, assists, and benefits the operations of the butte silver bow public archives. The friends will acquire from time to time, for such uses and purposes, by purchase, gift, will, or otherwise, real and personal property, including endowments, and has and exercises the right to hold or manage such funds or property under the terms and conditions imposed by such grants, agreements, or wills. The friends additionally solicits public support through charitable contributions and advises and assists the butte-silver bow public archives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Friends of the Butte Archives continued its work supporting the butte silver bow public archives (bsbpa) in 2025. During the year, the friends helped the bsbpa with advertising and promotion of archives events. The friends also continued work in book binding and digitizing tapes on behalf of the bsbpa. Further, the friends administered a fellowship for scholars using the bsbpa for research activities, and participated in a matching grant program. The friends also occasionally purchased equipment and supplies on behalf of the bsbpa, and provided meals, materials, equipment, and promotion for bsbpa board meetings, public events, and historical displays.
$18,563 spent83% of program spendingGeneral and administrative costs incurred to support the archives mission. This amount also includes an adjustment (990ez, part I, line 20)for the fair market value of its investment account.
$3,833 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,396.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $253k to $376k (+48%).
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.
70% of THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES’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
THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
90% of THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES
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.
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES?
- THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,700 to it, the largest being JAMES AND CHLOE GILMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($15,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $47,700 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES?
- JAMES AND CHLOE GILMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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