· Private foundation
Charles M Bair Memorial Trust US Bank Trust Dept
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $659k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $521k
- $250k+1 grant · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION | $575,000 |
| WHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE | $230,000 |
| MOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC | $115,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST MOTHER CHURCH | $64,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,749 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,823 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,984 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,170 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,014 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,538 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,326 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,239 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,088 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,206 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +79%
- WMWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +53%
- MMMOUNTAINVIEW MEDICAL CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $688k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $29k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $19k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles M Bair Memorial Trust US Bank Trust Dept funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles M Bair Memorial Trust US Bank Trust Dept. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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