· Private foundation
Nibs and Edna Allen Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FD INC | $26,000 |
| MILES CITY CONVENT KEEPERS | $15,000 |
| KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL | $13,000 |
| MILES CITY POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOC | $11,000 |
| GAMMA BETA 14177 | $10,000 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| RANGE RIDERS INC | $6,100 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EKALAKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| RANGE RIDERS INC | $4,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +232% · 25% of their budget
- RRRANGE RIDERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $127k · revenue +19%
- WAWATERWORKS ART MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- GCGARFIELD COUNTY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
- MCMILES COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $17k
- BVBroadus Volunteer Fire Department Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +55%
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.
Museum
Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum
To preserve rural health care
To honor the history of Freestone County
Preserve cass county history
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
Maintain and develop museum to preserve the history of the local area
Preservation of history in Whitman County
The mohave county historical society maintains a museum in kingman, arizona to collect and display historical objects and to increase and distribute knowledge and appreciation of the history of the area.
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
Educational/record preservation
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 61 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 CUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANGE RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY CONVENT KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds CUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Broadus Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC ↗
- Who funds MILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds POWDER RIVER FIRST RESPONDERS LTD ↗
- Who funds CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE 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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Treacy Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nibs and Edna Allen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nibs and Edna Allen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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