Montana · Private foundation
Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $201k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 62 | $201k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $86k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $82k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $90k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $80k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $77k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $72k | 31% |
89% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Public Safety & Disaster$183kRecreation & Sports$139kHuman Services$91kArts & Culture$55kHealth$52kYouth Development$37kPublic Benefit$34kEducation$32kOther$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc | $27,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Geraldine Community Ambulance | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Geraldine Senior Citizens Inc | $23,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Stanford Beautification Project Inc | $20,320 | 9 | n/a |
| Belt Swimming Pool Corporation | $19,500 | 7 | 11% |
| Shonkin Community Club | $18,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Highwood Rural Fire Department | $18,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Belt Volunteer Ambulance Service | $17,950 | 8 | 2% |
| Basin Wellness Center Inc | $15,333 | 6 | n/a |
| Geyser Emergency Services Inc | $13,942 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 50 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc | $27,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Geraldine Community Ambulance | $26,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Geraldine Senior Citizens Inc | $23,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Stanford Beautification Project Inc | $20,320 | 9 | n/a |
| Belt Swimming Pool Corporation | $19,500 | 7 | 11% |
| Shonkin Community Club | $18,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Highwood Rural Fire Department | $18,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Belt Volunteer Ambulance Service | $17,950 | 8 | 2% |
| Basin Wellness Center Inc | $15,333 | 6 | n/a |
| Geyser Emergency Services Inc | $13,942 | 4 | n/a |
| Judith Basin Food Pantry | $12,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Outriders Saddle Club | $11,103 | 8 | n/a |
| Belt Park & Rec Board | $10,000 | 9 | 53% |
| Judith Basin Operation Santa | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Little Belt Cowboys Association Inc | $9,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Belt Food Bank | $9,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Geraldine Youth Sports Inc | $8,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Cascade County | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Highwood Senior Citizens | $7,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Geraldine Veterans Memorial Association | $6,700 | 6 | n/a |
| Spire Health Incorporated | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Geraldine Action Association Inc | $5,619 | 5 | n/a |
| Geyser Community Hall Club | $5,500 | 4 | 12% |
| Highwood Commercial Club | $5,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Geraldine Booster Club Inc | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Stanford Ambulance | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Geyser Day Care | $4,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Stanford Flyers Club Inc | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Stanford Library Guild Inc | $3,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Chouteau County Free Library Foundation Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 13% |
| Stanford Education Foundation | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| The Geraldine Historical Committee | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Benton Community Improvement Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Golden Age Center | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Belt Clay Target Team | $2,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Judith Basin Archery Club | $2,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Belt Valley Shakespeare Players Inc | $1,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Judith Basin Historical Society Inc | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Montana Farmers Union Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Benton Trails Committee | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana Trail 406 Association | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Chouteau County Fine Arts Council | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| River and Plains Society Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Highwood Public School Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Belt Baseball Club | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Benton Chamber of Commerce | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highwood Baseball | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dedman Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Geyser Education Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Mt Lil Wranglers Youth Rodeo | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($429k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.
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.
Lippard-Clawiter FoundationMT39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation
- How much does Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation give?
- Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $201,017 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc ($28k), Geraldine Community Ambulance ($26k), Geraldine Senior Citizens Inc ($23k).
- Does Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lippard-Clawiter Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Tordik Wildlife Foundation.
- Where is Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation based?
- Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation is based in MT.
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