· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eagle Mount | $10,000 |
| Gallatin Valley Food Bank | $6,000 |
| Soldier's Chapel | $6,000 |
| Bozeman Senior Center | $6,000 |
| Cancer Support Community | $5,000 |
| Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter | $4,500 |
| Family Promise of Gallatin Valley | $3,000 |
| Big Sky Community Housing Trus | $2,500 |
| Warriors and Quiet Waters | $2,500 |
| Gallatin River Task Force | $2,000 |
| Wellness in Action | $2,000 |
| Montana Hope Project | $2,000 |
| AWARE | $2,000 |
| Morning Star Learning Center | $2,000 |
| Big Sky Community Library | $1,500 |
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, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEagle Mount9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +270%
- HOHEART OF THE VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +56%
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- HHRDCone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.
As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…
A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…
To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
The purposes of the corporation shall be specifically to operate a statewide coordinated health information exchange and related services to enhance clinical care in the community and to improve and promote public health care in the…
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
Big sky owners association was organized in 1972 for the purposes set forth in the articles of incorporation which include the management, operation, and maintenance of the facilities of big sky, montana for the health, safety, enjoyment,…
To promote, stimulate, and advance the general welfare and economic development for billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knight Foundation CO M Scholz funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knight Foundation CO M Scholz. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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