Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,136,799
- Total expenses
- $796,186
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,126,665
- Grants paid
- $69,012
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $8,574
- Other revenue
- $1,560
- Total assets, end of year
- $687,078
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $21,595
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $665,483
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $326,154
- Management and general expenses
- $320,519
- Fundraising expenses
- $149,513
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $326,154
Program services were 41.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$654,628
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$472,037
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3 · Investment income
total $8,574 · excluded $8,574
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $110 · excluded $110
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11a · Other revenue: Other Income
total $1,450 · related or exempt $1,450
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$1,450
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $69,012 · program services $69,012
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $137,358 · program services $42,581 · management and general $59,064 · fundraising $35,713
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $260,261 · program services $80,681 · management and general $111,912 · fundraising $67,668
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $22,453 · program services $6,960 · management and general $9,655 · fundraising $5,838
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $60,646 · program services $18,800 · management and general $26,078 · fundraising $15,768
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $24,256 · program services $7,519 · management and general $10,430 · fundraising $6,307
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $600 · program services $92 · fundraising $508
-
11g · Fees: other
total $32,525 · program services $650 · management and general $24,050 · fundraising $7,825
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $13,460 · management and general $13,460
-
13 · Office expenses
total $8,375 · program services $5,320 · management and general $2,270 · fundraising $785
-
14 · Information technology
total $12,295 · program services $390 · management and general $11,905
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $7,878 · program services $2,155 · management and general $4,662 · fundraising $1,061
-
17 · Travel
total $0
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $4,819 · management and general $4,819
-
23 · Insurance
total $1,442 · management and general $1,442
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24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM HONORARI AND TRAVEL
total $89,412 · program services $77,735 · management and general $4,379 · fundraising $7,298
-
24b · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
total $22,556 · program services $948 · management and general $21,188 · fundraising $420
-
24c · Other expenses: WEBSITE EXPENSE
total $14,072 · management and general $14,072
-
24d · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
total $7,943 · program services $6,863 · management and general $758 · fundraising $322
-
24e · All other expenses
total $6,823 · program services $6,448 · management and general $375
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $39,764 · end of year $28,462
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $161,743 · end of year $542,382
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $97,216 · end of year $0
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $10
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $12,312 · end of year $0
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$46,707
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$36,916
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $13,997 · end of year $9,791
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
-
12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $99,523 · end of year $106,433
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $109,323 · end of year $21,595
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $213,014 · end of year $485,648
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $102,218 · end of year $179,835
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Humanities Montana serves communities through stories and conversation. We offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans diverse history, literature, and philosophy.
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GRANTMAKING - Humanities Montana's Grantmaking program awarded grants to nonprofit organizations, libraries, museums, schools, tribal nations, scholars, and community organizations to support public humanities programming throughout Montana. During FY2025, Humanities Montana awarded grants to 25 organizations and scholars, including eight first-time grant recipients. Approximately 52% of subawards supported organizations serving communities with populations under 5,000, including American Indian communities. Grant-funded projects advanced public engagement with Montana history, literature, civic participation, cultural preservation, and Indigenous knowledge.
Expenses $170,698 · Grants $69,012
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SPEAKERS BUREAU - Humanities Montana's Speakers Bureau, consisting of Montana Conversations, and Speakers in the Schools, connected communities across Montana with scholars, historians, authors, tribal educators, and other humanities practitioners. During FY2025, the program completed 108 bookings, resulting in 150 presentations that reached 7,989 participants statewide. Programs were presented in libraries, museums, schools, and community organizations, with 67% occurring in rural communities, including American Indian communities. Following the April 2, 2025 termination of Humanities Montana's General Operating Support grant, 46 Montana Conversations programs and 31 Speakers in the Schools visits were canceled, reducing statewide programming until partial federal funding was restored in June 2025.
Expenses $68,815
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General Council Management - expenses represent shared programmatic activities that support Humanities Montana's statewide public humanities mission across all programs and are not directly allocable to a single program service. Consistent with Humanities Montana's Profit & Loss by Class report, this amount includes payroll and related employee benefits associated with program management, planning, coordination, administration, and oversight across all programs, as well as other shared program service costs. These expenses are classified as Program Services and do not include Management and General or Fundraising expenses.
Expenses $58,839
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DEMOCRACY PROJECT - Humanities Montana's Democracy Project is a nonpartisan civic education initiative that partners with public libraries to strengthen civic literacy and democratic participation through humanities-based programming. During FY2025, the program operated in 13 Montana communities, including seven full program sites and six developing sites. Teen participants met over the course of six months to identify community needs, develop civic engagement projects, collaborate with local leaders, and present their work through public community showcases. Projects addressed issues including mental health, traffic safety, environmental stewardship, school improvement, voting rights, and community spaces, strengthening youth leadership and civic participation across Montana.
Expenses $27,802
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
-
Jill Baker
Executive Dir. thru 10/2025
- Total calculated
- $115,914
- From this org
- $90,236
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $25,678
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $90,236
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $8,970
- Nontaxable benefits
- $16,708
- Filer's total
- $115,914
-
Karen Reiff
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carol Bradley
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Raymond Ekness
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Esther Beth Sullivan
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jennifer Corning
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeanette Fregulia
Vice & Grant Ch
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lynda Grande
Finance Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Glory Blue Earth
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jeremy Carl
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
David Cates
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tim Wilson
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mary Hernandez
Gover. Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lathie Poole
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Arian Randall
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
W Clark Whitehorn
Board
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John Knight
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
None.
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
-
Community Project
-
$7,840
Community Project
-
University of Montana
$6,561
Community Project
-
University of Montana Western
$6,457
Community Project
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 4 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202632479349300813
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