Montana · Private foundation
Cordingley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $524k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Cordingley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 7 | $41k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $45k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $47k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $39k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $43k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $42k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $27k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $31k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helena Education Foundation | $108,500 | 9 | 7% |
| Inseparable Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Helena Food Share Inc | $18,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montana Free Press | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Prickly Pear Land Trust | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Holter Museum of Art | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helena Education Foundation | $108,500 | 9 | 7% |
| Inseparable Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Helena Food Share Inc | $18,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montana Free Press | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Prickly Pear Land Trust | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Holter Museum of Art | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Jobs for Americas Youth Montana | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Myrna Loy | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Chance of Montana | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Seven Law | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Ants Pants Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bridgercare | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Paris Gibson Square Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark Library Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark Literacy Council | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cordingley Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · Treacy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Speyer Family Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Mainwaring Family Foundation · Helena Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Cordingley Foundation
- How much does Cordingley Foundation give?
- Cordingley Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $41,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cordingley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (8%).
- Who are Cordingley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helena Education Foundation ($109k), Inseparable Inc ($20k), Helena Food Share Inc ($19k).
- Does Cordingley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cordingley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cordingley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, Treacy Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cordingley Foundation based?
- Cordingley Foundation is based in MT.
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