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Pennmont Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$124k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$57,300
Organizations funded a year
13 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Pennmont Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$119k14%
FY202314$109k0%
FY202214$94k7%
FY202113$76k8%
FY202013$37kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$204kHuman Services$86kFood & Nutrition$56kYouth Development$44kHealth$32kRecreation & Sports$15kPhilanthropy$8kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montana Meth Project$29,80452%
Haven$27,55650%
YWCA Missoula$23,99840%
Thrive Inc$20,39750%
Montana FFA Foundation Inc$18,56651%
Help Center Inc$18,56650%
Montana High School Rodeo Assoc$15,00051%
Eagle Mount$8,15950%
Bozeman Prison Ministries$6,159445%
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc$4,00020%
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All grantees of Pennmont Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montana Meth Project$29,80452%
Haven$27,55650%
YWCA Missoula$23,99840%
Thrive Inc$20,39750%
Montana FFA Foundation Inc$18,56651%
Help Center Inc$18,56650%
Montana High School Rodeo Assoc$15,00051%
Eagle Mount$8,15950%
Bozeman Prison Ministries$6,159445%
Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc$4,00020%
Bridgercare$2,00010%
Grace Bible Church$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($260k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pennmont Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontana Meth Project: $29,804 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHaven: $27,556 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA Missoula: $23,998 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThrive Inc: $20,397 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMontana FFA Foundation Inc: $18,566 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHelp Center Inc: $18,566 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMontana High School Rodeo Assoc: $15,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetEagle Mount: $8,159 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBozeman Prison Ministries: $6,159 over 4y, 45% of budgetChildrens Museum of Bozeman Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBridgercare: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Treacy Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gilhousen Family Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana

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.

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How do I get to Pennmont Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pennmont Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Pennmont Foundation

How much does Pennmont Foundation give?
Pennmont Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $124,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Pennmont Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Pennmont Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Montana Meth Project ($30k), Haven ($28k), YWCA Missoula ($24k).
Does Pennmont Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pennmont Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pennmont Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark.
Where is Pennmont Foundation based?
Pennmont Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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