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RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION

EIN 45-1237337 WHT SPHR SPGS, MT

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Revenue 2024
$1,273,630
Expenses 2024
$1,352,488

Program services were 92.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 690

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION IS ORGANIZED TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND LEADERSHIP ROLES FOR WOMEN, TO PRESERVE AND SUPPORT WORKING FAMILY FARMS AND RANCHES AND TO ENRICH AND PROMOTE RURAL COMMUNITIES.

  • MUSIC FESTIVAL: THE RED ANTS PANTS MUSIC FESTIVAL IS THE SEMINAL PROGRAM, ADVANCING THE MISSION IN THREE KEY WAYS. FIRST, THE FESTIVAL IS A MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMUNITY EVENT, GATHERING UP TO 7,500 PEOPLE TO A WORKING CATTLE RANCH WHERE ATTENDEES EXPERIENCE A CELEBRATION STEEPED IN RURAL TRADITIONS AND VALUES. SECOND, THE FESTIVAL ACTIVELY TEACHES AGRICULTURAL SKILLS THAT ARE INTEGRAL TO LIFE IN RURAL MONTANA. THESE SKILLS ARE TAUGHT THROUGH THE DEMONSTRATION AREA AND KIDS TENT WITH HANDS-ON EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. THIRD, THE FESTIVAL RAISES AWARENESS AND MONEY THAT SUPPORTS OTHER PROGRAMS OF THE RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION.

    Expenses $1,007,562 · Revenue $918,996

  • RAPF GIRLS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: THIS YEAR-LONG LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE EMPOWERS JUNIOR-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS FROM RURAL MONTANA TO GROW AS CONFIDENT, COMMUNITY-MINDED LEADERS. PARTICIPANTS ENGAGE IN THREE IMMERSIVE WEEKEND RETREATS, THREE INTERACTIVE WEBINARS, A ONE-ON-ONE MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE AND THEY EACH DEVELOP AND EXECUTE THEIR OWN MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY PROJECT. THE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO CULTIVATE HOPE IN OUR YOUTH, PRIDE IN OUR RURAL HERITAGE AND STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN THEIR LEADERSHIP JOURNEYS. ADDITIONALLY WE HOST A WEEKEND LONG RETREAT IN EASTERN MONTANA FOR SOPHOMORE-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AS WELL AS AN ALUMNI PROGRAM WITH CONTINUED IN PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAMMING.

    Expenses $67,277 · Revenue $19,150

  • SKILLS WORKSHOPS: OFFERING TECHNICAL SKILL BASED WORKSHOPS IN TIMBER SKILLS, CARPENTRY AND TRAILER BACKING.

    Expenses $67,237

  • COMMUNITY GRANT CYCLE: SERVING RURAL MONTANA COMMUNITIES WHOSE PROJECTS PARALLEL OUR MISSION.

    Expenses $52,181 · Grants $31,000

  • WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY WELL BEING RETREATS: THREE DAY GATHERINGS OF WOMEN TO TEACH RESILIENCE SKILLS AND REFLECTION THROUGH WRITING, CONNECTION AND RESTORATION.

    Expenses $52,277

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Courtney Cowgill

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Hedrich

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chelsea Cole

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maida Knapton

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sam Blomquist

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Hollow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kaleena Miller

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Fitzgerald

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Calhoun

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $95,619
    From this org
    $89,265
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,354
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,273,630
    Expenses
    $1,352,488
    Contributions
    $323,521
    Grants paid
    $31,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,226,922
    Expenses
    $1,251,636
    Contributions
    $202,275
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,135,200
    Expenses
    $1,109,827
    Contributions
    $166,604
    Grants paid
    $20,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,047,451
    Expenses
    $935,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $447,431
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $332,984
    Expenses
    $273,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,491
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $789,657
    Expenses
    $850,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,698
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $960,029
    Expenses
    $878,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $341,337
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $860,165
    Expenses
    $751,852
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,308
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $800,832
    Expenses
    $776,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,682
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $70,049
    Expenses
    $76,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,989
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $48,394
    Expenses
    $78,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,626

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • PASTURE PRODUCTIONS LLC

    RED ANTS PANTS FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES · MT · income $1,273,630 · assets $161,440

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.