Form 990-PF for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$546,602

Total expenses

$546,234

Contributions and grants received

— not reported

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$372,250

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$12,987,852

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$372,250

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$372,250

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

• MONTANA BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION

  $45,000

  CLANCY, MT

  EB AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMERCIAL BROADCASTING.

• MONTANA PBS

  $35,000

  BOZEMAN, MT

  FOR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS PROGRAM FUND.

• FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS

  $33,000

  OXNARD, CA

  SUPPORT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE FILM "HEALING UNDER THE BIG SKY" ABOUT EQUINE THERAPY IN MONTANA AND CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF "THE MONTANA SESSIONS" NEXT SEASON OF EPISODES.

• MAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE

  $25,000

  HAMILTON, MT

  CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR MAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE.

• MAPS FORT BELKNAP

  $25,000

  HAMILTON, MT

  CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR OPERATING THE MAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE-FORT BELKNAP PROGRAM.

• UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  MISSOULA, MT

  CONTINUED PROGRAM SUPPORT IN VARIOUS RADIO, ONLINE, AND STREAMING PROGRAMMING.

• NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

  $25,000

  WASHINGTON, DC

  SUPPORT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE FILM "THE GRIZZLY AMONG US" FOCUSED ON GRIZZLY BEARS IN MONTANA AND THE ISSUES SURROUNDING THEM.

• UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

  $23,250

  MISSOULA, MT

  IN CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR VARIOUS STUDENT PRODUCTIONS AND INTERNSHIPS.

• MONTANA FREE PRESS

  $20,000

  HELENA, MT

  FOR BROADCAST EXPANSION PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR MONTANA FREE PRESS JOURNALISM.

• BENCHMARK WRESTLING

  $20,000

  AUGUSTA, MT

  SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION OF THE FILM "BENMARCK" ABOUT A WRESTLING JOURNEY.

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Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2025

Filed

30 June 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202611839349100111

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