Montana · Nonprofit
YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM
YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM (Montana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,095 to it, the largest being SAMPLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,547,400). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trustshared funders
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio match
- The NBK Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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 broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $79k → $1.9M.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Royal & Norma Johnson Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM’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
YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 94% · 2019 42% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
73% of YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $785k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trustshared fundersMT · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Terra Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan Kathleen Black Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs Raymond J Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LGT Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$53k
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 YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM?
- YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM (Montana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,095 to it, the largest being SAMPLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,547,400). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,406,095 in grants to YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM?
- SAMPLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,547,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM 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.
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 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing