· Private foundation
Pennmont Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALLATIN COLLEGE - MSU | $57,300 |
| GALLATIN COUNTY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MONTANA METH PROJECT | $7,000 |
| HAVEN | $6,500 |
| YWCA OF MISSOULA | $6,500 |
| BOZEMAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH | $5,000 |
| THRIVE | $5,000 |
| MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| HELP CENTER | $4,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MT | $4,000 |
| MONTANA HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSN | $3,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $2,000 |
| GRACE BIBLE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| BRIDGERCARE | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHELP CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +108%
- MHMONTANA HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOC5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +109%
- EMEagle Mount5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +455%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The center for restorative youth justice (cryj) works to actively engage youth, victimes, families, communities in restorative programming that interrupts cycles of harm. our programs create opportunities for at-risk youth to deepen…
Montana's Peer Network is a statewide peer run 501(c)3 non-profit recovery organization with a mission to lead the expansion and development of recovery-oriented behavioral health services in Montana.
Support the montana community with education and mentorship regardless of economic background, previous experience, gender, age sexual orientation, race or ethnicity by offering a variety of instructional experiences, including guided…
Standard training certification of Law Enforcement Canine
To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGERCARE ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pennmont Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennmont Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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