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Folley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$689k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$168,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Folley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$689k8%
FY202311$745k36%
FY20229$580k0%
FY202110$685k20%
FY202010$545k40%
FY201915$835kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$795kEmployment$605kHuman Services$460kRecreation & Sports$265kAnimals$250kHousing & Shelter$150kPublic Benefit$130kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of Folley Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Montana Foundation$803,50051%
Farestart$545,00061%
The Dougy Center Inc$275,00035%
The Montana Land Reliance$260,00060%
The Ohio University Foundation$250,00030%
Montana Trout Unlimited$200,00065%
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc$175,000615%
Youthcare$150,00031%
Big Sky Community Organization$150,00012%
Big Sky Bravery Foundation$130,00044%
Haven$125,00023%
Crosscut Mountain Sports Center$115,00012%
Gallatin Valley Land Trust$75,00021%
Portland Women in Technology Inc$60,000115%
Washington Council of Trout Unlimited$50,0001n/a
Trout Unlimited Inc$25,0001n/a
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington$25,00011%
Big Sky Public Education Support Fund Inc$20,0002n/a
Chief Seattle Club$10,00010%
Ruby Habitat Foundation$10,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($625k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Folley Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Montana Foundation: $803,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFarestart: $545,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Dougy Center Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $260,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMontana Trout Unlimited: $200,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetUpper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc: $175,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetYouthcare: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBig Sky Community Organization: $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBig Sky Bravery Foundation: $130,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetHaven: $125,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCrosscut Mountain Sports Center: $115,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGallatin Valley Land Trust: $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPortland Women in Technology Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChief Seattle Club: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRuby Habitat Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

One Valley Community FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: One Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Folley Family Foundation

How much does Folley Family Foundation give?
Folley Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $688,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Folley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Environment (19%), Employment (15%).
Who are Folley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The University of Montana Foundation ($804k), Farestart ($545k), The Dougy Center Inc ($275k).
Does Folley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Folley Family 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 Folley Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include One Valley Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Folley Family Foundation based?
Folley Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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