· Private foundation
Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k59 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHWOOD RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| JUDITH BASIN COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| GERALDINE YOUTH SPORTS INC | $7,500 |
| GEYSER COMMUNITY CLUB | $7,500 |
| GEYSER SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER | $7,500 |
| FORT BENTON MEMORIAL AMBULANCE | $6,000 |
| GERALDINE SWIMMING POOL ASSOC INC | $5,000 |
| SPIRE HEALTH INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| BASIN WELLNESS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| STANFORD AMBULANCE | $5,000 |
| LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOC | $5,000 |
| BELT SWIMMING POOL | $5,000 |
| BELT GOLDEN AGERS SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
85 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 17 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +169%
- BVBELT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +44%
- LBLITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- JBJUDITH BASIN RURAL FIRE STANDORD DISTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- JBJUDITH BASIN RURAL FIRE - STANFORD DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The Mission of the Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…
Provides financial support for the community library by purchasing materials and supplies to continue general operations and programs.
Provide funding for the improvement & enhancement of the Beaverhead County Fairgrounds.
To provide food to those in need in rural deer lodge, mt.
Through leadership and integrity, the belgrade chamber of commerce is committed to unite the business community and enhance the quality of life in belgrade, mt.
The organization supports the small rural community of gardiner mt by maintaining a community center for gatherings and events as well as maintaining the small park at the entrance to yellowstone national park. the long-term goal of the…
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily in, or for the benefit of gallatin county, montana.
Operation of a county historical society and museum which produces exhibits promoting local history; manages a library relating to local history
To support the beaverton city library
Museum
Our mission is to supplement the funds received from the city of belmond to meet the library's needs.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 128 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.
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: Lippard-Clawiter Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Tordik Wildlife Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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