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COMMUNITY CLOSET INC

EIN 20-3477522 LIVINGSTON, MT

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Revenue 2024
$1,241,915
Expenses 2024
$1,024,755

Program services were 94.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
J32
Classification
1000
Street
416 E PARK ST

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

OPERATE A THRIFT STORE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LOCAL CHARITIES

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION RAISES MONEY THROUGH SALES AT A THRIFT SHOP. FUNDS ARE DISTRIBUTED EACH YEAR TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY. THE COMMUNITY CLOSET SERVES THE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED RURAL AREA OF PARK COUNTY, MONTANA. GOALS OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDE MAKING CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS AT A GREATLY REDUCED PRICE AND KEEPING TONS OF REUSEABLE GOODS OUT OF THE LANDFILL. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO ATTEMPTS TO RECYCLE OR REPURPOSE ITEMS THAT ARE UNSALEABLE.

  • RAISE FUNDS THROUGH OPERATING A THRIFT STORE TO DONATE TO LOCAL CHARITIES IN PARK COUNTY MONTANA. SINCE INCEPTION, THE ORGANIZATION HAS DONATED OVER 1,000,000 TO VARIOUS NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. A PARTIAL LIST OF THESE NONPROFITS INCLUDE FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY, THE SHANE LALANICENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER, LINKS FOR LEARNING, COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE, BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS, HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION,THE LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY, ETC. THE FUNDS RAISED BY THE THRIFT SHOP ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE TOTAL FUNDING RECEIVED BY MANY OF THESE NONPROFITS. THE COMMUNITY CLOSET HAS AN ABILITY TO QUICKLY FUND PROGRAMS WITH SPECIFIC NEEDS. TWO OTHER IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS ARE PROVIDING CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS AT REDUCED RATES TO LOCAL HOUSEHOLDS, AS WELL AS KEEPING HUNDREDS OF TONS OF TRASH FROM LANDFILLS THROUGH RE-USE AND RECYCLING. THE ORGANIZATION OPERATES TWO LOCATIONS IN DOWNTOWN LIVINGSTON. IN ADDITION TO THE MAIN THRIFT CENTER A SECOND LOCATION CURATES HIGHER-END GOODS IN A MORE TYPICAL RETAIL STORE ATMOSPHERE. THE ORGANIZATION WAS ABLE TO GIVE OUT 140,000 IN GRANTS TO COMMUNITY NONPROFITS IN 2024.

    Expenses $972,423 · Grants $140,457

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.

  • Ruth Caron Cooper

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $71,742
    From this org
    $71,742
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gayle Kamps

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Janene Molebash

    BOARD CHAIRM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Murphy

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin Tenpas

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sue Williams

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashley Smith

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,241,915
    Expenses
    $1,024,755
    Contributions
    $65,442
    Grants paid
    $140,457
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,243,173
    Expenses
    $897,011
    Contributions
    $157,174
    Grants paid
    $128,320
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $905,295
    Expenses
    $760,680
    Contributions
    $17,316
    Grants paid
    $113,802

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $864,956
    Expenses
    $620,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,978

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $579,064
    Expenses
    $559,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,825

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $487,954
    Expenses
    $473,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,613

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.