Montana · Community foundation
Moonlight Community Foundation
The MOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (mcf) supports initiatives for youth education, conservation, and under-served needs benefiting the big sky community.
- $822k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $767k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Moonlight Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 23 | $747k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $655k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $572k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $314k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $158k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $255k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $194k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $180k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht | $375,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $362,334 | 8 | 2% |
| Wellness in Action | $254,425 | 6 | 12% |
| Morningstar Learning Center Inc | $195,154 | 8 | 5% |
| Gallatin River Task Force | $164,297 | 8 | 5% |
| Friends of Big Sky Education | $153,170 | 7 | 4% |
| Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc | $139,710 | 6 | 0% |
| Big Sky Sno Inc | $116,917 | 4 | 23% |
| Big Sky School District | $107,567 | 6 | n/a |
| Crosscut Mountain Sports Center | $90,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Moonlight Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Knight Foundation CO M Scholz · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Moonlight Community Foundation
- How much does Moonlight Community Foundation give?
- Moonlight Community Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $767,200, out of $821,819 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Moonlight Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (17%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Moonlight Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht ($375k), Big Sky Community Organization ($362k), Wellness in Action ($254k).
- Does Moonlight Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Moonlight Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, Spanish Peaks Community Foundation, One Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Moonlight Community Foundation based?
- Moonlight Community Foundation is based in MT.
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