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Fred L Hartley Family 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.

$393k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$7.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Fred L Hartley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$383k53%
FY202421$407k24%
FY202322$500k59%
FY202216$282k44%
FY202117$786k47%
FY202010$127k50%
FY201918$290k56%
FY201815$450k60%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$352kRecreation & Sports$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$209kEducation$146kFood & Nutrition$138kScience & Tech$125kEnvironment$122kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
IA
CA
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$900,00070%
Samsat$169,59535%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation$125,00021%
Special Olympics Montana Inc$90,00061%
California Science Center Foundation$75,00020%
Flathead Electric Cooperative Inc$60,00030%
Bigfork Food Bank Inc$59,33285%
Kidsports$50,000213%
Eagle Mount$50,00031%
Department of Public Health & Human Services$50,0001n/a
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All grantees of Fred L Hartley Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$900,00070%
Samsat$169,59535%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation$125,00021%
Special Olympics Montana Inc$90,00061%
California Science Center Foundation$75,00020%
Flathead Electric Cooperative Inc$60,00030%
Bigfork Food Bank Inc$59,33285%
Kidsports$50,000213%
Eagle Mount$50,00031%
Department of Public Health & Human Services$50,0001n/a
Roundup for Safety Inc$50,000117%
Flathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County$46,00022%
Guide Dogs of the Desert$40,60011%
Flathead Library Foundation$38,00037%
Friends of Ferndale Mt Fire$35,000225%
North Lake County Library Foundation$35,000125%
Alano Club of Kalispell Inc$33,230517%
Bigfork Ladies Service Club$30,000322%
Miracle League of Nw Montana$30,00018%
Aid the Silent$27,50022%
Doheny Eye Institute$25,00010%
Guide Dogs of Texas Inc$25,00013%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$20,00010%
Operation Gratitude Inc$20,00010%
Flathead County Sheriffs Posse Inc$19,54012%
Friends of Bigfork Fire Department$18,000315%
Kendall County Youth Agriculture and Equestrian Center$17,260112%
Northwest Montana Historical Society Inc$16,77726%
Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc$15,57841%
The Ranch Recovery Centers Inc$15,50011%
Friends of Cibolo Wilderness$15,00010%
Northwest Montana Veterans Stand Down$10,00011%
Comfort Volunteer Fire Department$10,00012%
Kalispell Peewee Baseball Inc$10,0001n/a
Hunt Volunteer Fire Department$10,00011%
National Nordic Museum$10,00020%
Friends of Smith Valley Fire District$10,000119%
Pets for Vets Inc$10,00011%
Step Up on Second Street Inc$10,00020%
L'Arche Jacksonville Inc$9,60020%
Flathead Food Bank Inc$8,00020%
California Oil Museum Foundation$6,32514%
Bigfork Playhouse Children's Theatre Inc$5,12512%
Bigfork Aces$5,00012%
Special Olympics of Texas Inc$5,00010%
Vision Guide Dogs LLC$5,00017%
Martha's Village and Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Hockaday Museum of Art$4,16611%
Flathead Shelter Friends$4,00012%
Mountain Brook Homestead Foundation$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fred L Hartley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $900,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSamsat: $169,595 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetThe Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics Montana Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Science Center Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlathead Electric Cooperative Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBigfork Food Bank Inc: $59,332 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetKidsports: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEagle Mount: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRoundup for Safety Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFlathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County: $46,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGuide Dogs of the Desert: $40,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFlathead Library Foundation: $38,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFriends of Ferndale Mt Fire: $35,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetNorth Lake County Library Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetAlano Club of Kalispell Inc: $33,230 over 5y, 17% of budgetBigfork Ladies Service Club: $30,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetMiracle League of Nw Montana: $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAid the Silent: $27,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDoheny Eye Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Gratitude Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlathead County Sheriffs Posse Inc: $19,540 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of Bigfork Fire Department: $18,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetKendall County Youth Agriculture and Equestrian Center: $17,260 over 1y, 12% of budgetNorthwest Montana Historical Society Inc: $16,777 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc: $15,578 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Ranch Recovery Centers Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Cibolo Wilderness: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Montana Veterans Stand Down: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetComfort Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHunt Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Smith Valley Fire District: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetStep Up on Second Street Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL'Arche Jacksonville Inc: $9,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFlathead Food Bank Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Oil Museum Foundation: $6,325 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBigfork Playhouse Children's Theatre Inc: $5,125 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBigfork Aces: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSpecial Olympics of Texas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision Guide Dogs LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMartha's Village and Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 50.

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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.

Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Oro y Plata Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust

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 Fred L Hartley Family Foundation

How much does Fred L Hartley Family Foundation give?
Fred L Hartley Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $392,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fred L Hartley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Arts & Culture (9%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are Fred L Hartley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($900k), Samsat ($170k), The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation ($125k).
Does Fred L Hartley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred L Hartley 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 Fred L Hartley Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
Where is Fred L Hartley Family Foundation based?
Fred L Hartley Family Foundation is based in MT.

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 91 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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