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CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 22-2993741 BIGFORK, MT

Revenue 2025
$198,168
Expenses 2025
$211,079

Program services were 98.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1284

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).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • THOMAS SMITH

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE MCCARTHY

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL BOGUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PALMER CLARKSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM GROGAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM PETRIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILLY WEBSTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHAWN GUTTERSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHIP SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIRKE ROSE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $198,168
    Expenses
    $211,079
    Contributions
    $180,000
    Grants paid
    $197,250
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $467,935
    Expenses
    $274,242
    Contributions
    $451,250
    Grants paid
    $263,400
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $201,743
    Expenses
    $125,430
    Contributions
    $199,225
    Grants paid
    $115,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $143,455
    Expenses
    $61,937
    Contributions
    $143,400
    Grants paid
    $55,000

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.

Grants made

  • MSU ALUMNI FOUNDATION

    $50,000

    2023 TO GO TOWARDS THE PURCHASE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PERMANENT RODEO GROUNDS FOR THE MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY RODEO TEAM.

  • C4 FOUNDATION

    $50,000

    2025 TO SUPPORT THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE RANCH ENVIRONMENT AND THE EXPANSION PROJECT.

  • MSU ALUMNI FOUNDATION

    $50,000

    2024 TO GO TOWARDS THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF A PERMANENT RODEO GROUNDS FOR THE MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY RODEO TEAM.

  • CM RUSSELL MUSEUM

    $50,000

    2024 CASH ASSISTANCE TOWARDS THE DAN OSTERMILLER MUSTANG PROJECT, WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDER SCULPTURE GARDEN AT THE MUSEUM.

  • COWBOY ARTS AND GEAR MUSEUM

    $40,000

    2023 TO ASSIST IN REPLACING THE 1941 OTIS FREIGHT ELEVATOR, SO IT IS SUITABLE TO TRANSPORT VISITORS TO THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE BUILDING.

  • NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM

    $25,000

    2022 THE GRANT WILL BE USED TO ASSIST IN SUPPORT OF THE INSTITUTION, THROUGH DYNAMIC INTERPRETATIONS OF ART AND ARTIFACTS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, AND SCHOLARLY RESEARCH TO CONTINUE TELLING STORIES OF THE PAST AND STIMULATING DIALOGUES ABOUT OUR FUTURE.

  • C4 FOUNDATION

    $25,000

    2023 TO DEVELOP AN ART PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM TO BENEFIT ACTIVE-DUTY NAVY SEALS ADN THEIR FAMILIES.

  • C4 FOUNDATION

    $25,000

    2024 TO GO TOWARDS CAPITAL EXPENSES.

  • WESTERN SPIRIT SCOTTSDALE'S MUSEUM OF THE WEST

    $25,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE EDDIE BASHA COLLECTION EXHIBIT.

  • NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL

    $25,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL'S "BE INSTRUMENTAL CAPITAL CAMPAIGN" TO BUILD A NEW MUSIC SCHOOL.

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

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.