Montana · Private foundation
Fair View Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $359k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Fair View Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 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 | 19 | $15k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $13k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $11k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $7k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $8k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $7k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Yellowstone County | $7,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Montana Rescue Mission | $5,778 | 7 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana | $4,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Billings Food Bank Inc | $4,350 | 6 | 0% |
| RiverStone Health Foundation | $4,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Mountain States Legal Foundation | $3,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Montana Food Bank Network Inc | $3,600 | 5 | 0% |
| St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc | $2,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Hba Building Visions | $2,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley | $2,350 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fair View Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Mkm Foundation Inc · United Way of Yellowstone County Inc · Kampgrounds of America Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Fair View Foundation
- How much does Fair View Foundation give?
- Fair View Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $16,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Fair View Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Fair View Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of Yellowstone County ($8k), Montana Rescue Mission ($6k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana ($4k).
- Does Fair View Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fair View Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fair View Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fair View Foundation based?
- Fair View Foundation is based in MT.
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