· Private foundation
Ajax Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tumbleweeds | $75,000 |
| Caltech Associates | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Montana Rescue Mission | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CLDI | $25,000 |
| Red Lodge Fire Rescue Foundation | $25,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Billings | $25,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Red Lodge | $25,000 |
| Vogel Alcove | $25,000 |
| Red Lodge Area Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Ecuadorian Rivers Institute | $10,000 |
| Billings Preserv Soc Endow Trust | $10,000 |
| American Whitewater | $10,000 |
| Northfield Mount Hermon School | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Ajax Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACaltech Associates4× · 2021–2024 · $150k
- TTumbleweeds4× · 2020–2024 · $95k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2020–2024 · $45k
Funded once
- DIDOG IS MY COPILOTone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SASalvation Army King Countyone grant, 2020 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.
The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The bob marshall wilderness foundation bmwf has been serving the wilderness recreation community for over twenty 20 years by organizing and leading projects that clear trails and preserve the wilderness ecosystem by restoring damaged areas…
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…
The mission of jmr is to perform humanitarian search, rescue, and recovery services in any climactic condition and in any situation compatible with team capabilities; promotes wilderness safety and accident prevention to the general…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Ecuadorian Rivers Institute ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds Billings Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ajax Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ajax Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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