· Private foundation
John & Marilyn Olson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MONDAK | $6,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY CARE | $5,000 |
| R C EMERGENCY SHELTER COALITION | $5,000 |
| ROI FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| R C COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| PELLA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| EASTERN MONTANA COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $4,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN ARTS NETWORK | $4,000 |
| EAGLE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MON-DAK HERITAGE CENTER | $3,000 |
| FLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP | $3,000 |
| FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -67% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +42%
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +60%
- RCRICHLAND COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TGTRUE GENTLEMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k · 89% of their budget
- GSGIRL SCOUT TROOP #2433one grant, 2017 · $500
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
The montana preservation alliance (mpa) saves and protects montana's historic places, traditional landscapes, and cultural heritage. we are the only statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing montanans with the resources…
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
To build and maintain trails in the Missouri River Headwaters Area.
To Provide Financial and Other Support to Fire and Emergency Medical Service Organizations and Providers Serving the Greater Red Lodge, Montana Community.
Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.
To provide through local leadership economic, technical, and engineering information, and access to resources to improve theeconomies in the area.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUE GENTLEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY CARE ↗
- Who funds MONDAK HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY GYMNASTICS CLUB ↗
- Who funds FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SIDNEY FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Oneok Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dayton Foundation · Foundation for Community Care · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Marilyn Olson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Marilyn Olson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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