Montana · Nonprofit
The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts
The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts (Montana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,371 to it, the largest being PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($718,770). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts does
Mission
The mission of the Shane Lalani Center for the Arts is to strengthen community through participation in the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Production: The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts provides southwest montana exceptional community theatre sustained by more than 179 talented volunteer participants. Each season, we produce two community theatre productions, a teen theatre student production, and our annual holiday vaudeville in the beautiful 165-seat dulcie theatre. Together, these productions total 40 performances, engaging approximately 5,800 audience members. In addition, the shane center introduced "live at the blake pavilion", welcoming 1,175 attendees to four concerts and music festivals, and our free summer outdoor concert series, with nine performances drawing approximately 4,210 attendees. In addition, the shane center presents series, brought four world-class performances to the dulcie theatre, and we presented nine free movies with our livingston film series. We continued and expanded strategic partnerships with other local and regional arts organizations, bringing montana shakespeare in the parks to livingston, joint concerts featuring montana state university and university of montana's schools of music. Hosting opera montana's block party, and presenting noon notes with the montana chamber music.
$396,724 spent$179,854 earned by the program51% of program spendingVenue: The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts provides the community a space for thousands of people to gather, connect, celebrate monumental moments, learn new skills, grow, and share. Our historic facility in the heart of livingston offers seven public rental spaces and hosted over 161 events and 62,000 visitors last year. The shane center also is home to nine long term tenants including a vibrant caf, a local music and book store, a dance studio, a community digital and traditional dark room, a music instructor, a massage therapist, an art studio, and nonprofit office space.
$208,539 spent27% of program spendingEducation: for over two decades, the shane center has been dedicated to providing high-quality artistic education to the students of park county through its youth education program. Our educational programming continues to grow year over year, now serving more than 2,108 student participants and engaging over 5,800 audience members annually. In 2025, we provided over 350 hours of childcare at an average cost of $4.47 per hour, not including the financial assistance and multi-child discounts we offer. In addition to our tuition-based programs, we provided more than 320 hours of free after-school and in-school programming, ensuring accessibility for all students and, provided 126 scholarships for a total of $34,500 of financial assistance. The youth education program operates year-round, with active programming every month except december. Offerings included a winter and three summer young actors' workshops, all two-week programs culminating in three public performances for students in grades k-12. The teen theatre production, a free multi-week production open to teens, provided performance opportunities at no cost. The devised theatre initiative, a free seven-week after-school…
$165,649 spent$108,287 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $770,912.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $6.7M (+38%).
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.
88% of The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Erika Adams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $175k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts’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 Shane Lalani Center for the Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 Shane Lalani Center for the Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 72% · 2019 94% · 2020 27% · 2021 69% · 2022 81% · 2023 64% — 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
35% of The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
57% of The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $628k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 Shane Lalani Center for the Arts?
- The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts (Montana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,371 to it, the largest being PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($718,770). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,446,371 in grants to The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts?
- PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $718,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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