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.

Lippard-Clawiter Foundation

Lippard-Clawiter Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lippard-Clawiter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$536k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$65k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$915kRecreation & Sports$598kPublic Safety & Disaster$594kArts & Culture$483kPublic Benefit$476kHealth$382kHuman Services$236kYouth Development$139kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k30 grants · $134k
$10k–50k18 grants · $284k
$50k–250k2 grants · $119k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TOWN OF BIG SANDY	$65,000
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOC	$53,986
GERALDINE SWIMMING POOL ASSOCIATION	$35,750
CITY OF FORT BENTON	$30,750
LOMA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$20,000
SUNRISE BLUFF ESTATES	$20,000
THE GOLDEN AGE CENTER	$15,000
CHOUTEAU COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL	$15,000
GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE	$15,000
RIVER & PLAINS SOCIETY	$15,000
HIGHWOOD RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT	$15,000
BIG SANDY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$14,633
BIG SANDY ROTARY CLUB	$13,500
GFWC FORT BENTON'S WOMAN'S CLUB INC	$12,000
HIGHWOOD COMMERCIAL CLUB	$11,727

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 54 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$23k

Still filing today

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FB
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $788k · revenue +9% · 53% of their budget
RA
RIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue ×11
GC
GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE
9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +169% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

BS
BIG SANDY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $13k
FB
FORT BENTON COMMUNITY SCALE
one grant, 2021 · $5k
FB
FORT BENTON FFA ALUMNI
one grant, 2018 · $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.

04Its field

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.

Sergeant Bluff Fire Rescue and Ems Foundation Inc

To provide medical and fire services to the citizens of sergeant bluff, iowa.

Public Safety & Disaster

Colestin Rural Fire Protection District

Rural fire protection

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Heritage Community Center Inc

Operation of seniors' center in city of thief river falls

Arts & Culture

Deer Lodge Food Pantry

To provide food to those in need in rural deer lodge, mt.

Food & Nutrition

Golden Years Senior Citizens Inc

Senior citizen center

—

Gooding County Senior Citizens Organization Inc

Providing meals and activities for senior citizens

Food & Nutrition

Beaverhead Senior Citizens Association

Provide a gathering place for area seniors to gather and socialize. Includes serving a weekly meal.

Human Services

Custer Battlefield Museum Inc

To manage a historical museum in southeast montana that preserves the history of the battle of the little bighorn.

Arts & Culture

Fordland Senior Citizens Housing in

Provide affordable housing for low incom

—

Bowdon Development Center

To promote the bowdon community and it's assets.

Recreation & Sports

Beaverhead Allied Senior Services

The mission of this organization is to aid and assist senior citizens and provide for them a better quality of life.

—

Senior Citizens Center Inc

Establish and operate a senior citizens center for beatrice and gage county nebraska

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department; the most unlike its peers is Destination Fort Benton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,660,885Community Improvement$931,354Health$250,276Arts & Culture$152,209Public Safety & Disaster$125,183Human Services$120,400Philanthropy$103,000

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.

Leroy and Claris Strand FoundationMT39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation · Tordik Wildlife Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lippard-Clawiter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lippard-Clawiter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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