How much does Browning Kimball Foundation give?

Browning Kimball Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $761,186 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 60 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Browning Kimball Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (15%), Health (14%).

Who are Browning Kimball Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trigg - C M Russell Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Special K Ranch ($406k), Montana State University Foundation Inc ($316k).

Does Browning Kimball Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Browning Kimball Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Browning Kimball Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Browning Kimball Foundation based?

Browning Kimball Foundation is based in OK.

Browning Kimball Foundation

Browning Kimball Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Browning Kimball Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$761k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$95k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$1.1MEducation$936kYouth Development$603kFood & Nutrition$535kRecreation & Sports$349kEnvironment$320kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $33k
$10k–50k25 grants · $583k
$50k–250k2 grants · $145k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$94,737
FRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATI	$50,000
MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION	$46,000
SPECIAL K RANCH	$44,100
RURAL MONTANA FOUNDATION	$40,000
CM RUSSELL MUSEUM	$39,349
WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE	$35,000
MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK	$30,000
AWARE	$30,000
PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC	$30,000
MONTANA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION	$26,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC	$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC	$25,000
HELP COMMITTEE AND BOYS & GIRLS CLU	$22,000
YOUNG PARENTS EDUCATION CENTER INC	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.7M · 80 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

80 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.7M

$487k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+28%

Still filing today

65%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TC
TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +21%
SK
SPECIAL K RANCH
9× · 2017–2025 · $406k · revenue +49%
MS
Montana State University Foundation Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $316k · revenue +384%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF BEAVER CREEK PARK INC
one grant, 2024 · $78k · 67% of their budget
HC
HILL COUNTY WEED DISTRICT
one grant, 2021 · $40k
DO
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

Scenic Montana Trails

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Montana Healthcare Foundation

Philanthropy

The Greater Montana Foundation

Philanthropy

ZooMontana Inc

Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.

Animals

Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Philanthropy

Montana Conservation Elders

Environment

Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement

Colt Family Foundation Montana

Philanthropy

Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals

Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

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.

Environment

Montana Policy Action Inc

To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy

Social Science

Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Stockgrowers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Havre Beneath the Streets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 140 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

79/80

Grantees still filing

48/80

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,421,828Arts & Culture$1,557,853Health$817,284Human Services$587,500Education$566,790Youth Development$306,000Community Improvement$296,500

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.

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT52.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Treacy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Montana Healthcare Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Browning Kimball Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Browning Kimball Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home