Montana · Private foundation
Gilhousen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $903k
- Granted FY2022
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $877k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $600,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 4
- Total assets, FY2022
- $278k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 21% of the organizations Gilhousen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 34 | $877k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $926k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $1.9M | 92% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowstone Theological Institute | $1,538,400 | 2 | 55% |
| Help Center Inc | $172,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Greater Gallatin United Way Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Thrive Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Haven | $77,500 | 2 | 6% |
| The Rock Youth Center | $70,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Montana Meth Project | $60,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Community Health Partners Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 51 grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gilhousen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · One Valley Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · First Security Bank Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gilhousen Family Foundation
- How much does Gilhousen Family Foundation give?
- Gilhousen Family Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $877,150, out of $903,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
- What does Gilhousen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (75%), Human Services (5%), Health (3%).
- Who are Gilhousen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Yellowstone Theological Institute ($1.5M), Help Center Inc ($172k), Greater Gallatin United Way Inc ($130k).
- Does Gilhousen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gilhousen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gilhousen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Town Pump Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gilhousen Family Foundation based?
- Gilhousen Family Foundation is based in MT.
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