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PIEGAN INSTITUTE

EIN 36-3566677 BROWNING, MT

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Revenue 2024
$576,406
Expenses 2024
$599,594

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 890

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

CHARTERED IN 1987 TO RESEARCH, PROMOTE AND PRESERVE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES, IN PARTICULAR THE BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE OF THE BLACKFEET TRIBE IN MONTANA. PIEGAN INSTITUTE CREATES FLUENT SPEAKERS AND TEACHERS OF THE BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE THROUGH AN IMMERSION K-8 SCHOOL.

  • FUNDS ARE USED TO PROMOTE AND EDUCATE BLACKFEET CHILDREN IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE. FUNDING PROVIDES AN IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE IN THE CUTS WOOD BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOL (1995) FOR FAMILIES WITH A LOVING, CHALLENGING AND REWARDING ENVIRONMENT FOR 32 (K-8) STUDENTS TO GAIN A FULL EDUCATION WHILE LEARNING TO SPEAK THE BLACKFOOT LANGUAGE. ALUMNI CURRENTLY TEACH AT THE SCHOOL. PIEGAN INSTITUTE DOES NOT SEEK STATE, FEDERAL OR TRIBAL FUNDING.

    Expenses $496,503

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Darren Kipp

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $88,542
    From this org
    $88,542
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Roberta Kipp

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Zita Bremner

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

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
    $576,406
    Expenses
    $599,594
    Contributions
    $566,380
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $495,627
    Expenses
    $598,931
    Contributions
    $487,983
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $579,975
    Expenses
    $550,347
    Contributions
    $579,886
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $683,967
    Expenses
    $469,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,212,847
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $480,949
    Expenses
    $484,063
    Assets (EOY)
    $992,040
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $470,921
    Expenses
    $418,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $990,388
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $441,397
    Expenses
    $388,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $937,500
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $430,414
    Expenses
    $326,233
    Assets (EOY)
    $886,423
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $317,348
    Expenses
    $257,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $730,590
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $317,219
    Expenses
    $247,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $670,792
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $225,862
    Expenses
    $240,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $601,118
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $236,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $615,620
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $233,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $611,621

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.