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MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION

EIN 81-0435459 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2024
$991,871
Expenses 2024
$990,435

Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
1000
Street
1750 N WASHINGTON 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

PROVIDE DEVELOPMENT AND ADVISORY LEADERSHIP FOR ORGANIZATIONS DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF MONTANA'S HISTORY AND CULTURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDES LEADERSHIP AND RAISES FUNDS TO HELP ORGANIZATIONS PRESERVE MONTANA'S HERITAGE RESOURCES.

  • FUND RAISING AND GRANTING OF AWARDS TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE MONTANA HISTORY THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

    Expenses $411,362 · Grants $91,500 · Revenue $177,033

  • SUPPORT MONTANA HERITAGE COMMISSION OPERATIONS AND PROJECTS INCLUDING THE PIONEER FUND, VIRGINIA CITY/NEVADA CITY PROJECTS, AND THE RESTORATION OF STONEWALL HALL. THE MAJORITY OF THE RESTRICTED FUNDS FOR THE FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECT WITH THE MONTANA HERITAGE COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF STONEWALL HALL WERE RECEIVED IN THE PRIOR YEAR THOUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE RESTRICTED EXPENDITURES FOR THIS PROJECT OCCURRED IN THE CURRENT YEAR.

    Expenses $50,098

  • MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROJECTS

    Expenses $35,233

  • EXPENDITURES TO SUPPORT OTHER MONTANA HISTORICAL PROJECTS

    Expenses $201,565

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.

  • CHASE HIBBARD

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETH MCFADDEN

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRANT ZAHAJKO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HELENA MACLAY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARMINE MOWBRAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRENDA PETERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHANTELLE NASH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBORA BROWN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • OWEN ROBINSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIM GORDON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MONTY LESH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE O'NEILL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLENE PORSILD

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,588
    From this org
    $136,588
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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
    $991,871
    Expenses
    $990,435
    Contributions
    $413,700
    Grants paid
    $91,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,572,915
    Expenses
    $2,108,316
    Contributions
    $966,815
    Grants paid
    $237,621
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,576,959
    Expenses
    $1,436,158
    Contributions
    $882,440
    Grants paid
    $226,733

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
    $1,655,465
    Expenses
    $1,005,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,725,083

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,170,117
    Expenses
    $753,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,109,325

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,299,183
    Expenses
    $809,982
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,736,805

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $952,744
    Expenses
    $759,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,177,001

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,159,256
    Expenses
    $1,606,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,841,770

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,309,571
    Expenses
    $1,113,859
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,053,471

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $665,870
    Expenses
    $669,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,731,162

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,026
    Expenses
    $601,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,827,472

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $955,026
    Expenses
    $601,209
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,827,472

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,153,999
    Expenses
    $665,799
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,464,454

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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