Montana · Private foundation
Lippard-Clawiter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $536k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Lippard-Clawiter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 50 | $536k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $498k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $513k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $552k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $459k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $458k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $459k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $446k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Benton Community Improvement Association | $787,554 | 9 | 53% |
| Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc | $235,750 | 9 | n/a |
| The Geraldine Historical Committee | $152,209 | 9 | 8% |
| River and Plains Society Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 15% |
| Geraldine Community Ambulance | $131,276 | 9 | 59% |
| Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department | $125,183 | 9 | 9% |
| Loma Rural Volunteer Fire Department | $125,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Rotary Club | $120,400 | 8 | 25% |
| Big Sandy Medical Center Inc | $119,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Highwood Commercial Club | $114,005 | 9 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Benton Community Improvement Association | $787,554 | 9 | 53% |
| Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc | $235,750 | 9 | n/a |
| The Geraldine Historical Committee | $152,209 | 9 | 8% |
| River and Plains Society Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 15% |
| Geraldine Community Ambulance | $131,276 | 9 | 59% |
| Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department | $125,183 | 9 | 9% |
| Loma Rural Volunteer Fire Department | $125,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Rotary Club | $120,400 | 8 | 25% |
| Big Sandy Medical Center Inc | $119,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Highwood Commercial Club | $114,005 | 9 | n/a |
| Highwood Rural Fire Department | $110,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Geraldine Action Association Inc | $105,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Golden Age Center | $103,000 | 6 | 35% |
| Sunrise Bluff Estates Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Chouteau County Free Library Foundation Inc | $75,903 | 8 | 88% |
| Big Sandy Historical Society Inc | $67,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Chouteau County Search and Rescue | $50,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Cultural Fund | $47,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Geraldine Senior Citizens Inc | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Chouteau County Health Care Foundation Inc | $34,708 | 7 | 11% |
| Big Sandy Little Pioneer Wrestling | $32,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Shonkin Community Club | $32,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Senior Citizens Center | $31,797 | 9 | 5% |
| Big Sandy Arts and Athletics | $30,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Outriders Saddle Club | $27,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Barracuda Swim Team | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Knees Community Club | $22,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Activities | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Carter Volunteer Fire Department | $14,135 | 8 | n/a |
| Fort Benton Gators Inc | $13,650 | 4 | n/a |
| Big Sandy Education Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Benton Little Guy Wrestling Club | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Geraldine Youth Sports Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Highwood Baseball | $7,589 | 2 | n/a |
| Strongher Together | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Chouteau County Fine Arts Council | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Destination Fort Benton | $3,800 | 1 | 5% |
| Square Butte Rod & Gun Club | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pioneer Producers Inc | $2,400 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lippard-Clawiter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Lippard-Clawiter Foundation
- How much does Lippard-Clawiter Foundation give?
- Lippard-Clawiter Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $536,428 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lippard-Clawiter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (21%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
- Who are Lippard-Clawiter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fort Benton Community Improvement Association ($788k), Geraldine Swimming Pool Association Inc ($236k), The Geraldine Historical Committee ($152k).
- Does Lippard-Clawiter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lippard-Clawiter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lippard-Clawiter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation, Tordik Wildlife Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Lippard-Clawiter Foundation based?
- Lippard-Clawiter Foundation is based in MT.
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