Montana · Private foundation
Logjam Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $937
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Logjam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 4 | $40k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $115k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $36k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $51k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $80k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $680k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zootown Arts Community Center | $535,500 | 4 | 31% |
| Montana Trout Unlimited | $106,150 | 1 | 15% |
| Spark Arts Ignite Learning | $75,000 | 3 | 54% |
| Missoula Civic Symphony Association | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Home Resource Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Missoula Art Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Roxy Theater | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sussex School Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $5,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Missoula Downtown Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zootown Arts Community Center | $535,500 | 4 | 31% |
| Montana Trout Unlimited | $106,150 | 1 | 15% |
| Spark Arts Ignite Learning | $75,000 | 3 | 54% |
| Missoula Civic Symphony Association | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Home Resource Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Missoula Art Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Roxy Theater | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sussex School Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $5,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Missoula Downtown Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bare Bait Dance | $4,125 | 1 | 1% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Missoula County Public Schools | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Logjam Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · Leaw Family Foundation Inc · Merlin Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation
How this is measured
About Logjam Foundation
- How much does Logjam Foundation give?
- Logjam Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $40,125 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Logjam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (78%), Environment (13%), Education (6%).
- Who are Logjam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Zootown Arts Community Center ($536k), Montana Trout Unlimited ($106k), Spark Arts Ignite Learning ($75k).
- Does Logjam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Logjam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Logjam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Missoula Community Foundation.
- Where is Logjam Foundation based?
- Logjam Foundation is based in MT.
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