· Private foundation
Lyle & Gail Grimes Char Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,300 |
| BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| CARE NET | $1,000 |
| MISSOULA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MISSOULA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SHODAIR HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS LBTY | $1,000 |
| MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $500 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +162%
- MHMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +443%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MTMT TROUT UNLIMITEDone grant, 2020 · $2k
- WCWATSON CHILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
The mission of the montana tech foundation is to advance the teaching, research and public service endeavors of montana tech by generating private contributions to supplement the institution's state and federal revenues for capital,…
Missoula international school inspires principled global citizens and lifelong learners through a challenging bilingual education from preschool to eighth grade.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Create sustainable homeownership opportunities and improve the availability of affordable rentals.
State-of-the-art pool and fitness center providing members of the mission valley community with opportunities to improve their quality of life through health and fitness in a positive, well-structured and safe environment. programs…
How this is measured
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 34 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.
- Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NET OF MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
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: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Earl and Bertha Pruyn Foundation · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · Louis L Borick Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lyle & Gail Grimes Char Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyle & Gail Grimes Char Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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