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HUMANTIES MONTANA

EIN 23-7357909 MISSOULA, MT

Revenue 2024
$1,136,799
Expenses 2024
$796,186

Program services were 41.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
311 BRANTLY HALL UNIV OF MONTANA

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

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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,136,799
    Expenses
    $796,186
    Contributions
    $1,126,665
    Grants paid
    $69,012
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,011,229
    Expenses
    $902,607
    Contributions
    $1,009,246
    Grants paid
    $184,631

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
    $912,929
    Expenses
    $958,439
    Assets (EOY)
    $430,321

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,292,883
    Expenses
    $1,390,916
    Assets (EOY)
    $548,269

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,192,703
    Expenses
    $1,151,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $543,833

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $993,347
    Expenses
    $871,188
    Assets (EOY)
    $483,931

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $844,088
    Expenses
    $796,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,712

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $737,260
    Expenses
    $725,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $282,447

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,834
    Expenses
    $736,248
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,579

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $700,018
    Expenses
    $673,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,441

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $672,706
    Expenses
    $647,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,662

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $677,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,137

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

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 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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.