Montana · Nonprofit
ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER
ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER (Montana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,685 to it, the largest being LOGJAM FOUNDATION ($535,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $992k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Zootown Arts Community Center does
Mission
Cultivating community through accessible arts experiences for all
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community enrichment:the zacc organizes and carries out several community enrichment events throughout the year. In addition to our many class offerings, first friday events, performances, gatherings and guest speakers which take place in various parts of our facility under several different program umbrellas, our last best print fest, missoula monster project and holiday open house events all attract a very large number of community members for participation. The three aforementioned events alone allow us to collaborate with more than 320 artists, and each event brings in approximately 500 attendees with the missoula monster project bringing in closer to 1,000 viewers/community participants.
$102,391 spent$64,676 earned by the program15% of program spendingArt education:during 2024, the zacc delivered more than 2,100 hours of art education to youth and adults through artist-led workshops.
$233,175 spent$242,092 earned by the program34% of program spendingArtist enrichment opportunities:during 2024, the zacc had several programs designed to support, enrich, and incubate artists of all disciplines. We rented low-cost studio space to artists, a local artist shop, multiple galleries, artist in residency program, and a performance space and recording studio designed to support performance and sound artists to more easily connect with their audiences and grow as artists.
$351,887 spent$422,963 earned by the program51% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $687,453.
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 2017 to 2018, from $431k to $2.8M (+547%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $170k → $39k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER’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
ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 65% · 2019 46% · 2020 88% · 2021 49% · 2022 75% · 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
22% of ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
99% of ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$210k
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 ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER?
- ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER (Montana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,685 to it, the largest being LOGJAM FOUNDATION ($535,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,573,685 in grants to ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER?
- LOGJAM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $535,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER 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 15 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