· Private foundation
Pioneer Federal Community Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIALTO COMMUNITY THEATRE | $16,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| BEAVERHEAD COUNTY DUI TASKFORCE | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $3,000 |
| BE THE CHANGE 406 YOUTH COALITION | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $2,900 |
| LEAF FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| DEER LODGE MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY | $2,500 |
| BEAVERHEAD FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| BEAVERHEAD TRAILS COALITION | $2,000 |
| POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| DEER LODGE SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 | $1,400 |
| PIONEER MOUNTAIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +6%
- TUTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +243%
- PCPOWELL COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOC5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- GVGRASSHOPPER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
- GVGARRISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 sweet grass community health care foundation is in existence to provide support and donations to the medical facilities in the community of big timber montana.
Community Recycling Center
To Provide Financial and Other Support to Fire and Emergency Medical Service Organizations and Providers Serving the Greater Red Lodge, Montana Community.
To preserve rural health care
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Barrett Hospital & HealthCare provides compassionate care, healing, and health-improving service to all community members throughout life's journey.
To provide through local leadership economic, technical, and engineering information, and access to resources to improve theeconomies in the area.
Mountainview medical center is a non-profit corporation founded and supported by members of the community for those in need of quality health care. our mission is to provide holistic care whether inpatient, outpatient, emergency patient or…
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 82 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 RIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY WOOD BANK MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSHOPPER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM ↗
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 · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pioneer Federal Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pioneer Federal Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gordon College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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