Montana · Community foundation
Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation
Support local worthwhile community projects with income from a permanent endowment fund on the flathead indian reservation and the surrounding area
- $185k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $82k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $82k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $69k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $81k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $68k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $60k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Valley Aquatics | $68,408 | 6 | 2% |
| Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana | $17,286 | 2 | 3% |
| Mission Valley Mariners Inc Baseball Association | $10,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arlee Community Development Corporation | $8,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Polson Youth Soccer Assoc Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Hot Springs Food Pantry | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Polson Fairgrounds Inc | $5,750 | 1 | 7% |
| Friends of the Library | $5,500 | 1 | 8% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($333k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation
- How much does Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation give?
- Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $82,196, out of $184,813 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (52%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Education (4%).
- Who are Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mission Valley Aquatics ($68k), Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana ($17k), Mission Valley Mariners Inc Baseball Association ($10k).
- Does Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation based?
- Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation is based in MT.
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