Montana · Nonprofit
THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION
THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,817 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $164k
What Thompson Falls Film & Theater Foundation does
Mission
To restore and maintain a community entertainment venue and administer community scholarships.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Restore and maintain community entertainment venue.
$20,002 spent100% of program spendingGrant and administer Sanders community scholarships.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,002.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $167k to $215k (+28%).
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.
5% of THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jon Wakefield
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER 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
THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 90% — 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
74% of THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION
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
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION?
- THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,817 to it, the largest being DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,817 in grants to THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUNDATION?
- DENNIS & PHYLLIS WASHINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 6 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