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TINWORKS ART

TINWORKS ART (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,348,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,397,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$4.3M
Net assets
$862k
6/18 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tinworks Art does

Mission

Tinworks is the place where art meets the American West. We bring together artists, their work, and community in evolving spaces.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. TINWORKS ART, A BOZEMAN MONTANA BASED NONPROFIT, PROVIDES WELCOMING AND IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCES FOR ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN WEST AND BEYOND. WE NURTURE A DIVERSE RANGE OF ARTISTS AND SUPPORT THEIR CREATION OF AMBITIOUS, THOUGHT-PROVOKING WORKS OF ART THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING AND ENGAGEMENT BY THE PUBLIC. IN ADDITION TO OUR SEASONAL EXHIBITIONS, TINWORKS ART SPONSORS PUBLIC PROGRAMS THAT OFFER ART MAKING AND ART EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AGES; WORKSHOPS LED BY MONTANA BASED ARTISTS; PARTNERSHIPS WITH AREA NON-PROFITS TO PRESENT MUSICAL, CHORAL AND THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES; AND EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH FACULTY AND STUDENTS AT MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY. OUR VIEWING PUBLIC IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING TO INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS FROM ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND ACROSS THE WORLD, SEEKING TO EXPERIENCE THE ART AT TINWORKS THAT CONNECTS TO THE AMERICAN WEST. TINWORKS IS GUIDED BY THE BELIEF THAT ART IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF LIFE, WHICH ENGAGES AND EMPOWERS COMMUNITY IN PROFOUND WAYS.1. Exhibitions & Artist Support: Presented seasonal exhibitions featuring new work by a diverse range of artists, supported by Tinworks. Exhibitions were free and open to the…

    $777,616 spent$16,447 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $777,616.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($117k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2019 Revenue 96 ($112k) Expenses 133 ($108k) Net assets 110 ($39k)2020 Revenue 34 ($40k) Expenses 88 ($72k) Net assets 21 ($8k)2021 Revenue 258 ($301k) Expenses 330 ($268k) Net assets 114 ($41k)2022 Revenue 302 ($352k) Expenses 362 ($294k) Net assets 207 ($74k)2023 Revenue 1293 ($1.5M) Expenses 1148 ($934k) Net assets 1904 ($675k)2024 Revenue 1556 ($1.8M) Expenses 2010 ($1.6M) Net assets 2430 ($862k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1556)Expenses (2010)Net assets (2430)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $91k to $739k (+711%).

$37k
$40k
$8k
$44k
$91k
$739k
$937k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of TINWORKS ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$35k
’18
$4k
’19
−$32k
’20
$33k
’21
$58k
’22
$577k
’23
$183k
’24
3.0
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed5567
Joined·+0+1+1
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $75k → $1.2M.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 TINWORKS ART’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

TINWORKS ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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

91% 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 TINWORKS ART.

78%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% — 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

83% of TINWORKS ART's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

89% of TINWORKS ART'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 $479k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 11 states.

MT
WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MD
DE
GA
TX

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

’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TINWORKS ART has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)58% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TINWORKS ART

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 33%Fundraising 19%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TINWORKS ART?
TINWORKS ART (Montana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,348,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,397,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TINWORKS ART have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,348,500 in grants to TINWORKS ART, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TINWORKS ART?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,397,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TINWORKS ART 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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