· Private foundation
Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools | $5,000 |
| Big Sky Christian Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Billings Studio Theatre | $2,500 |
| Montana Audobon Center | $2,500 |
| FIRST TEE of Montana | $2,500 |
| NOVA Center for Performing Arts | $2,500 |
| Chinook Horses | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| High Plains Book Awards | $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 (FY18–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +127%
- NCNOVA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
- BSBILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- BSBIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +139%
- RPRose Park Elementary Schoolone grant, 2018 · $1k
- KFKICKS FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2021 · $800
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.
Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.
Billings middle school is a dynamic academic community intentionally designed to stretch, support, and inspire early adolescent learners. students develop intellect, creativity, communication & collaboration skills, self-confidence, and an…
The bozeman symphony provides programming for the benefit of individuals, students and musicians.
Organized as the butte symphony association (bsa), the all-volunteer butte symphony orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in montana. founded in 1950, the butte symphony has been an integral part of the art and music scene in sw…
To enhance the capacity of donors and charitable organizations to meet the needs of the greater billings community. we manage endowment funds for community 501 (c)(3) organizations in the greater billings, mt area. billings community…
To provide a venue for independent cinema and cultivative culture in billings, montana.
Billings united soccer club exists to promote the sport of soccer in billings and montana, by providing programming and league play for individuals of all abilities and levels of commitment.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
To provide a christ-centered education that develops critical thinking, clear communication, and faithful living.
The billings preservation society organization consist of administering, operating, maintaining, and restoration of the moss mansion historic house museum for the purpose of inspiring, educating, and facilitating historical and cultural…
Provide within the state of montana means and facilities for children and adolescents from as young as four years in age to nineteen years in age to engage in, develop skills in, and play the sports of soccer.
To assume a leadership role in feeding the hungry by recovering, securing, purchasing, and delivering (both through other agencies and directly) quality food and other products while playing a strong education and advocacy role in…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NOVA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK HORSES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · United Way of Yellowstone County Inc · Brosovich Family Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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