Montana · Private foundation
Max and Betty Swanson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $140k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Max and Betty Swanson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 58 | $140k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $173k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $166k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $126k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $127k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $167k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $129k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $156k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Montana Foundation | $89,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Life Center | $64,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Greater Missoula Family YMCA | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Loving Loic Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 16% |
| National Museum of Forest Service History | $26,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Opportunity Resources Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mountain Home Montana Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission of Missoula | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Patrick Hospital Foundation | $19,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Montana Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($520k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Max and Betty Swanson 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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Llewellyn Foundation · Missoula Community Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The William H & Margaret M Wallace Foundation
How this is measured
About Max and Betty Swanson Foundation
- How much does Max and Betty Swanson Foundation give?
- Max and Betty Swanson Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $139,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Max and Betty Swanson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Max and Betty Swanson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Montana Foundation ($89k), Christian Life Center ($65k), Greater Missoula Family YMCA ($53k).
- Does Max and Betty Swanson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Max and Betty Swanson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Max and Betty Swanson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation.
- Where is Max and Betty Swanson Foundation based?
- Max and Betty Swanson Foundation is based in MT.
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