The Montana Project Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

We published numerous articles/profiles of our work in media such as cowboys & indians, mountain outlaw, gave public talks in Maine, consulted with tribal representatives, hosted poet jane hirshfield, chris dombrowski, and numerous other artists, toured them into the old black ram forest. We secured an original artwork by woodcut artists claire emery. Monte dolack just finished his massive painting, commissioned by us, this past week. Clyde aspevig painted a magnificent large piece last fall. This fall, poet jane hirschfield will visit and write in the old forest this fall. Rick bass continues to work on what has become a short novel, whitebark, and has been in conversation with playwrights as well as singer/songwriter siri saterern. We are honored to be working with representatives from the confederated salish and kootenai tribes. Corwin clairmont, a member of the tribe's cultural committee, has attended many black ram concerts and is planning a trip to the old forest this year to begin planning an art project in support of its protection. We've also met with outlaw partners in big sky to plan future events and fundraisers with the guitar. The black ram guitar was played by jeff ament at pearl jam's "it takes a village" event at grizzly stadium last summer; we also played it in the community of seeley lake. By far the highlight of the year was the black ram guitar festival, presented to a sold-out audience at the wilma in missoula. We also played at an art gallery in missoula and a brewery. Montana singer songwriter rob quist toured the old forest and wrote a song for black ram and played it in the forest he and blackfeet singer/songwriter jack gladstone are going to be featured in a story about this campaign in the magazine, cowboys & indians. Articles in high country news and ecotone are also forthcoming. We joined patagonia in supporting the historic our children's trust case versus the state of Montana with regard to the right by all montanans to have a clean and environment. Lead plaintiffs badge and ryan and busse played the guitar and sang at the concert in missoula, jack gladstone and climate scientist/world renowned violinist pico alt. Missoula's most beloved musicians, caroline keys, nate biehl, and gibson hartwell, along with jenny white of butte, played and saying that the wilma, singer, songwriter series, etc. Bill mckibben was the emcee and we were honored to have a welcoming drumming by leslie caye and friends. Texas folk rocker james mcmurtry was the headline, and jeffrey foucault also played. Beth ann fennelly gave a poetry reading. Artist lauren strohacker collaborated with rick bass to create an original spoken word-and-image presentation. We gave two pechakucha presenations to sold-out audiences at the ellen in bozeman, mt. We toured the old forest at black ram with numerous poets and artists, including photographer peter kayafas. We visited bend, Oregon - breedlove guitars - and convinced jeff bridges to commission six more guitars as part of his and breedlove's in this together sustainability campaign. Breedlove is making a documentary about the campaign. We also played two events with the black and white fish. And we're featured prominently in the whitefish review's special music issue conducted outreach to wildlands festival and hope to have the guitar present there this year. We have been in touch with Texas tech university, and the university of Texas about the possibility of a black ram guitar festival in Texas. The guitar also played at the longstaff house in missoula, with guitar prodigy richard smith. The guitar played in red lodge with representatives from tippet rise in attendance. We continue to be in contact with t bone burnett and other nashville-area songwriters such as about writing song(s) for the guitar. And we will continue working with r a beattie to complete a documentary about the campaign, which will be shown at film festivals around the country. What we do a statewide "society to m

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -38.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 46% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings