Montana · Private foundation
Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $6k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $7k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $20k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $19k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigfork Food Bank Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bigfork Aces | $4,950 | 4 | 1% |
| North Shore Nordic Club | $3,520 | 3 | n/a |
| Bigfork Art and Cultural Center | $1,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Bigfork Youth Baseball Association | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flathead County Sheriffs Posse Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bigfork Rotary Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grounded Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.
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 · Roundup for Safety Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation
- How much does Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation give?
- Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $7,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bigfork Food Bank Inc ($5k), Bigfork Aces ($5k), North Shore Nordic Club ($4k).
- Does Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Roundup for Safety Inc, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation based?
- Bigfork Innovations Group Foundation is based in MT.
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