Montana · Private foundation
Mgdc Apgar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $280k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Mgdc Apgar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 | 30 | $280k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $244k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $58k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $124k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $195k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $495k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $201k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $207k | 93% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Press | $407,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mission Msa | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Clear Fund | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Alliance for Climate Protection | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Resource Equity | $50,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Waxfactory Inc | $28,294 | 5 | 7% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($424k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mgdc Apgar 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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · Oro y Plata Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Democracy Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
About Mgdc Apgar Foundation
- How much does Mgdc Apgar Foundation give?
- Mgdc Apgar Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mgdc Apgar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Mgdc Apgar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Free Press ($407k), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($210k), Mission Msa ($100k).
- Does Mgdc Apgar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mgdc Apgar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mgdc Apgar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner, Oro y Plata Foundation.
- Where is Mgdc Apgar Foundation based?
- Mgdc Apgar Foundation is based in MT.
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