Whitehall Events

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
334333360
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Whitehall, MT, USA
Phone
4064907591
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$31,949
Expenses
$24,437
Assets
$7,512

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kory Klapan (President)
  • Candice Alhan (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Kory Klapan (President)
  • Candice Alhan (Vice President)
  • Arica Klapan (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

Whitehall Events is organized to foster community spirit, preserve local heritage, and promote civic pride in Whitehall, Montana, by planning, organizing, and executing public celebrations and cultural events, including the annual Whitehall's Frontier Days festival.

What it reported doing in 2025

Planned, promoted, and executed the multi-day Whitehall Frontier Days community festival to preserve Western heritage, promote local tourism, and foster civic connection in Whitehall, Montana. The organization successfully hosted public events serving thousands of regional residents and visitors, including free youth activities at the community pool, a local parade, a public car show, and a Main Street vendor market supporting local artisans and nonprofits. Programs featured free public community entertainment such as a children's tractor pull, live music, a freestyle motocross stunt exhibition, and open-air street dances. Additionally, the organization staged a large-scale PRCA-sanctioned Western Rodeo.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 23; 23rd 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.