Montana · Private foundation
Charles M Bair Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 48
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Charles M Bair Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k 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 | 49 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $1.0M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $974k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $909k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta Bair Theater Corporation | $1,112,204 | 5 | 27% |
| Wheatland Memorial Healthcare | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Billings Catholic Schools | $165,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $159,998 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Yellowstone County Endowment Foundation | $123,750 | 5 | 8% |
| St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc | $118,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Art Museum | $112,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain College | $106,821 | 2 | 0% |
| New Day Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Meagher County Senior Center | $91,924 | 3 | 22% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles M Bair Family Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Charles M Bair Family Trust
- How much does Charles M Bair Family Trust give?
- Charles M Bair Family Trust reported 49 grants totaling $1,029,721 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Charles M Bair Family Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Health (20%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Charles M Bair Family Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Alberta Bair Theater Corporation ($1.1M), Wheatland Memorial Healthcare ($190k), Billings Catholic Schools ($165k).
- Does Charles M Bair Family Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles M Bair Family Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles M Bair Family Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
- Where is Charles M Bair Family Trust based?
- Charles M Bair Family Trust is based in MT.
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