Lone Peak Film Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332324842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Gallatin Gateway, MT, USA
- Phone
- 8622159900
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $163,016
- Expenses
- $120,333
- Assets
- $42,684
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL CALIFF-GLICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAYNEE JONES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL CALIFF-GLICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LAYNEE JONES (PRESIDENT)
- BAYARD DOMINICK (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lone peak film institute champions inspiring stories, builds community, offers mentorship, and supports local and indigenous filmmakers, all to spark positive change and catalyze action.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lone peak film fellowship is a mentorship program for early stage Montana-based filmmakers. The fellowship program is designed to give filmmakers as much insight & perspective as possible, with the ultimate goal of advancing specific individual projects. We are not directly producing the films for filmmakers, but rather offering them different types of resources and guidance that help them to advance their own projects, foster career sustainability, and encourage self-driven initiative. The fellowship includes educational opportunities, career strategy counseling, feedback sessions and networking events throughout the lone peak film festival and the following year. The start of our program takes place during the lone peak film festival. It includes a filmmaker retreat with panels, q&as, small group exercises and an outdoor activity. In addition to our film fellows, there will be up to 17 additional participating filmmakers whose films have been selected for exhibition at our festival. This creates opportunity for our fellows to build relationships with more established filmmakers, as our standards for film selection are high.beyond the festival, lpfi staff and select board members offer year-round mentorship for our fellows with monthly calls built to support each of the fellows' projects. We will offer feedback on grant applications, budgets, scripts and outlines, facilitate introductions to producers and crew, and host guest mentors who can offer specialized learning opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.