How much does Park County Community Foundation give?

Park County Community Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $3,146,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Park County Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (14%).

Who are Park County Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ($719k), Park County Environmental Council ($661k), Livingston Food Pantry of Park County ($622k).

Does Park County Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Park County Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, The Kendeda Fund.

Where is Park County Community Foundation based?

Park County Community Foundation is based in MT.

Park County Community Foundation

Park County Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

Park County Community Foundation

Our mission is to connect caring people and resources with community needs and opportunities.

$3.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$185k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.2MArts & Culture$1.8MEducation$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$730kCrime & Legal$711kAnimals$529kOther$0

02FY2024 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $73k
$10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M

$19,684

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHANE LALANI CENTER FOR THE A	$184,535
NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION F	$170,420
PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COU	$167,090
FARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY	$131,764
ASPEN	$126,648
LIVINGSTON HEALTH CARE FOUNDA	$125,710
COUNTERPOINT	$119,685
THE LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE	$114,610
FRIENDS OF LINKS FOR LEARNING	$103,755
FRIENDS OF PARK COUNTY	$98,010
WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHAN	$77,018
LIVINGSTON SCHOOL DISTRICTS	$75,040
LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION	$72,991
LIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ARTS AN	$71,381
COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIV	$67,807

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $678k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 75 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+6%

Still filing today

80%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TS
The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts
8× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +103%
PC
Park County Environmental Council
6× · 2019–2024 · $661k · revenue +317%
NY
North Yellowstone Education Foundation
6× · 2019–2024 · $604k · revenue +426% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

TF
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF HELENA INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +937%
CC
CENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -59%
TP
TESLOW PRESERVATION GROUP
one grant, 2020 · $35k

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.

04Its field

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.

Scenic Montana Trails

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Montana Conservation Elders

Environment

Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals

Save our Gallatin Front Inc

Environment

The Greater Montana Foundation

Philanthropy

Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment

Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…

Philanthropy

Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement

Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment

Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals

Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment

Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Ranges Community Recreation Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Montessori Island School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 113 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

88/92

Grantees still filing

56/92

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,357,023Environment$1,682,895Arts & Culture$1,507,077Education$1,072,823Food & Nutrition$870,504Crime & Legal$742,159Health$706,180

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.

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.

The Arthur M Blank Family FoundationGA81× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Stake Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · Freeman Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Park County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Park County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home