Montana · Private foundation
GE McDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $172k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,099
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $906k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations GE McDonald Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 16 | $172k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $160k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $193k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $151k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $206k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $112k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption | $543,387 | 7 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain College | $102,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Montana Rescue Mission | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| ZooMontana Inc | $62,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Billings Family YMCA Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Service | $33,062 | 2 | 0% |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $30,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Alberta Bair Theater Corporation | $25,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Rimrock Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Billings Public Library Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption | $543,387 | 7 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain College | $102,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Montana Rescue Mission | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| ZooMontana Inc | $62,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Billings Family YMCA Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Service | $33,062 | 2 | 0% |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $30,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Alberta Bair Theater Corporation | $25,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Rimrock Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Billings Public Library Foundation Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Leadership & Development Inc | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc | $10,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Billings Catholic Schools Foundation | $9,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Billings Rotary Foundation Inc | $7,730 | 3 | 4% |
| Eagle Mount Billings | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Eagle Mount | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Montana | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Keestone Communication Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget GE McDonald 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation
How this is measured
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About GE McDonald Foundation
- How much does GE McDonald Foundation give?
- GE McDonald Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $171,946 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does GE McDonald Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Education (17%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are GE McDonald Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption ($543k), Rocky Mountain College ($103k), Montana Rescue Mission ($100k).
- Does GE McDonald Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does GE McDonald Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as GE McDonald Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Charles M Bair Family Trust.
- Where is GE McDonald Foundation based?
- GE McDonald Foundation is based in MT.
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