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Charles M Bair Family Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

Charles M Bair Family Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$522kEducation$340kYouth Development$305kPublic Safety & Disaster$271kRecreation & Sports$226kHousing & Shelter$178kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $751k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Alberta Bair Theater$30,000
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation$30,000
Boys and Girls Club of Billings and Yellowstone County$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Billings Family YMCA: $40k → 9%Billings Family YMCA: $40k → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $27k → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $10k → 9%St John's Lutheran Ministries: $13k → 9%St John's Lutheran Ministries: $10k → 9%Living Independently Today and Tomorrow Lift: $10k → 9%St John's Lutheran Ministries: $8k → 9%St John's Lutheran Ministries: $3k → 9%Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation: $30k → 9%Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation: $30k → 9%Big Sky Senior Services: $30k → 9%Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation: $30k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Charles M Bair Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 96%.

Charles M Bair Family Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 55 repeat orgs$724k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
22

Total granted

$4.3M
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

53%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AB
    ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +60% · 27% of their budget
  • WM
    WHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $190k · revenue +15%
  • BC
    BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • MW
    Martinsdale Water & Sewer District
    one grant, 2023 · $133k
  • ND
    NEW DAY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    CHINOOK HORSES
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -26%
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.

1
Yellowstone Behavioral Health

Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county

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2
Yellowstone Health Partnership

The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.

Health
3
Yellowstone County Assistance Network

To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.

Human Services
4
South Central Montana Regional Mental Health Center

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.

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5
Yellowstone County Museum Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary

Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable greater yellowstone ecosystem wildlife while providing a message of education and conservation.

Environment
7
Yellowstone Mountain Club Public Safety and Privacy Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center

Provide mental health services

Health
9
Yellowstone Womens First Step House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Billings Chamber of Commerce

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.

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11
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
12
Scenic Montana Trails
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 86 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
19/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $165,000 · OtherBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLSBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $159,998 · OtherBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONMartinsdale Water & Sewer District: $132,582 · OtherMartinsdale Water & Sewer DistrictYWCA of Billings: $127,500 · OtherYWCA of BillingsST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherMEAGHER COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $91,924 · OtherLove and Sunshine Ministries: $90,000 · Other+48 more: $1,390,252 · Other+48 moreALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION: $1,112,204 · Arts & CultureALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORA…YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: $112,500 · Arts & CultureYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUMCINE BILLINGS: $53,000 · Arts & CultureWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $190,000 · HealthWHEATLAND M…NEW DAY INC: $100,000 · HealthNEW DAY INCVeterans Navigation Network: $47,500 · HealthVeterans Na…YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $40,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE…CHINOOK HORSES: $40,000 · HealthCHINOOK HOR…MOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC: $33,358 · HealthMOUNTAINVIE…GRATITUDE IN ACTION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $25,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $90,000 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTON…BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesBILLINGS F…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA: $75,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …RiverStone Health Foundation: $36,525 · Human ServicesRiverStone…St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesSt John's …BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBIG SKY SE…FAMILY SERVICE: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…LANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $123,750 · Youth DevelopmentMeagher County 4H Council: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentZooMontana Inc: $88,117 · AnimalsYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $40,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $106,821 · EducationYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $10,000 · Education
Other$2,375,256Arts & Culture$1,277,704Health$495,858Human Services$466,525Youth Development$174,250Animals$128,117Education$116,821

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION: $1,112,204 over 5y, 27% of budgetWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $190,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $159,998 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $123,750 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $118,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: $112,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $106,821 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DAY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMEAGHER COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $91,924 over 3y, 22% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $88,117 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA: $75,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $67,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $57,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCINE BILLINGS: $53,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVeterans Navigation Network: $47,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetUPPER MUSSELSHELL HISTORIC SOCIETY: $44,178 over 1y, 44% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHINOOK HORSES: $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWHEATLAND COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $37,700 over 1y, 19% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CASA INC: $37,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation: $36,525 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC: $33,358 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN HERITAGE CENTER: $26,392 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIMROCK FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC: $22,149 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGRATITUDE IN ACTION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,040 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEAGHER COUNTY STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget
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.

  • 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 BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds CHINOOK HORSES ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds WHEATLAND COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗

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.

Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Scl Health - MontanaTown Pump Charitable …The Mary Alice Fortin…Donald & Carol Robert…GE McDonald FoundationGianforte Family Char…M J Murdock Charitabl…First Interstate Bank…Dan & Jeanne Scott Fa…
Montana Community Foundation IncMT62.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Charles M Bair Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles M Bair Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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