Montana · Community foundation
Billings Community Foundation
To enhance the capacity of donors and charitable organizations to meet the needs of the greater billings community. We manage endowment funds for community 501 (c)(3) organizations in the greater billings, mt area. BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has over 50 funds for charities.
- $769k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $320k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $14,759
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $104,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Billings Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $320k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $154k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $162k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $260k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $92k | 89% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billings Family YMCA Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Wyola Development Fund | $130,249 | 4 | n/a |
| Muryl and Lu Myhre Foundation Inc | $104,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyola School District #29 | $69,225 | 2 | n/a |
| Stillwater Historical Society | $60,250 | 4 | 13% |
| Montana Audubon | $55,075 | 5 | 2% |
| Yellowstone River Parks Association | $52,189 | 4 | 4% |
| Joliet Community Center Inc | $47,009 | 5 | 16% |
| Wyola Youth Group Mighty Few | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Service | $25,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Billings Community Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Charles M Bair Family Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · GE McDonald Foundation
How this is measured
About Billings Community Foundation
- How much does Billings Community Foundation give?
- Billings Community Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $320,095, out of $769,262 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Billings Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Human Services (18%), Education (9%).
- Who are Billings Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Billings Family YMCA Inc ($150k), Wyola Development Fund ($130k), Muryl and Lu Myhre Foundation Inc ($104k).
- Does Billings Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Billings Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
- Where is Billings Community Foundation based?
- Billings Community Foundation is based in MT.
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