· Private foundation
Charles M Bair Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $751k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $75,000 |
| Rocky Mountain College | $75,000 |
| Wheatland Memorial Healthcare | $50,000 |
| Upper Musselshell Historic Society | $44,178 |
| YWCA of Billings | $40,000 |
| Billings Family YMCA | $40,000 |
| Wheatland County Senior Citizens Center | $37,700 |
| Meagher County Ambulance Service | $35,000 |
| City County Preservation Committee | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| St Vincent Healthcare Foundation | $30,000 |
| Yellowstone Art Museum | $30,000 |
| Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation | $30,000 |
| Alberta Bair Theater | $30,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Billings and Yellowstone County | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Charles M Bair Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 96% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
55 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ABALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +60% · 27% of their budget
- WMWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +15%
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- MWMartinsdale Water & Sewer Districtone grant, 2023 · $133k
- NDNEW DAY INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- CHCHINOOK HORSESone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
The museum mission is to collect, preserve, research, and interpret the natural history and diverse cultures of the yellowstone valley of montana and the northern plains. we share this legacy through a full range of exhibits and…
Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable greater yellowstone ecosystem wildlife while providing a message of education and conservation.
Yellowstone mountain club public safety and privacy, inc. was incorporated for the purpose of providing full time, year-round public health and safety services for all persons and organizations located on, within, and, in some cases, even…
Provide mental health services
Established in 1997, Yellowstone Recovery was founded to provide a place and a plan for indigent men and women who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Our primary purpose is to help men and women achieve sobriety.
Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat and the most unlike its peers is Upper Musselshell Historic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY INC ↗
- Who funds MEAGHER COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DYNAMICS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CINE BILLINGS ↗
- Who funds Veterans Navigation Network ↗
- Who funds UPPER MUSSELSHELL HISTORIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK HORSES ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · GE McDonald Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles M Bair Family Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.