Montana · Private foundation
Knight Foundation CO M Scholz
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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Knight Foundation CO M Scholz 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; $500 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 | 19 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $47k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $75k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $63k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $54k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Mount | $69,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Soldiers Chapel Corporation | $43,400 | 9 | n/a |
| Heart of the Valley Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Support Community of Montana | $35,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Wellness in Action | $20,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gallatin River Task Force | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Montana Hope Project Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Aware Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Big Sky Education | $16,250 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Mount | $69,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Soldiers Chapel Corporation | $43,400 | 9 | n/a |
| Heart of the Valley Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Support Community of Montana | $35,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Wellness in Action | $20,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gallatin River Task Force | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Montana Hope Project Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Aware Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Big Sky Education | $16,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Morningstar Learning Center Inc | $12,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Montana Land Reliance | $9,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Sky Skating & Hockey Association Inc | $9,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc | $8,440 | 3 | 0% |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Knight Foundation CO M Scholz 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: Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Rieschel Foundation · Prometheus Charitable Trust · Michael D Arneson and Susan H Arneson · Harold W Sweatt Foundation · Glore Fund · The Carter Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Knight Foundation CO M Scholz
- How much does Knight Foundation CO M Scholz give?
- Knight Foundation CO M Scholz reported 19 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Knight Foundation CO M Scholz fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Knight Foundation CO M Scholz's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eagle Mount ($70k), Soldiers Chapel Corporation ($43k), Heart of the Valley Inc ($39k).
- Does Knight Foundation CO M Scholz fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Knight Foundation CO M Scholz 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 Knight Foundation CO M Scholz?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, One Valley Community Foundation, Spanish Peaks Community Foundation.
- Where is Knight Foundation CO M Scholz based?
- Knight Foundation CO M Scholz is based in MT.
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