How much does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation give?

Red Lodge Area Community Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $590,545, out of $913,232 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (17%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).

Who are Red Lodge Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helena Area Habitat for Humanity ($456k), Domestic and Sexual Violence Services ($245k), Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary ($178k).

Does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Red Lodge Area Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc, The Sidney E Frank Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Red Lodge Area Community Foundation based?

Red Lodge Area Community Foundation is based in MT.

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Montana · Community foundation

Red Lodge Area Community Foundation

The RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION serves our community through connecting people and building community by catalyzing change and leveraging resources to build a strong, vibrant, resilient, inclusive community. As a neutral convener, we serve through grantmaking, community leadership, and philanthropic services.

$913k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 27
Itemized grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $591k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $14,845
Largest grant, FY2025: $85,131
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 30; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $5.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Red Lodge Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsPhilanthropyScience & TechEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$591k	35%
FY2024	26	$343k	15%
FY2023	30	$881k	50%
FY2021	18	$684k	22%
FY2020	15	$230k	13%
FY2019	18	$286k	39%
FY2018	13	$442k	15%
FY2017	12	$162k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$503kHousing & Shelter$456kPublic Safety & Disaster$315kArts & Culture$263kAnimals$254kYouth Development$247kHuman Services$190kPhilanthropy$166kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Helena Area Habitat for Humanity	$456,319	1	23%
Domestic and Sexual Violence Services	$244,834	9	n/a
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary	$177,843	9	7%
Boys and Girls Club of Red Lodge and the Beartooth Front Inc	$165,870	8	14%
Carbon County Historical Society	$127,975	9	18%
Buses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated	$123,452	6	23%
Beartooth Humane Alliance	$109,730	7	13%
Beartooth Billings Clinic Foundation	$102,116	9	5%
Carbon County Community Food Bank	$90,845	9	12%
Beartooth Trails	$90,441	9	20%

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All grantees of Red Lodge Area Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Helena Area Habitat for Humanity	$456,319	1	23%
Domestic and Sexual Violence Services	$244,834	9	n/a
Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary	$177,843	9	7%
Boys and Girls Club of Red Lodge and the Beartooth Front Inc	$165,870	8	14%
Carbon County Historical Society	$127,975	9	18%
Buses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated	$123,452	6	23%
Beartooth Humane Alliance	$109,730	7	13%
Beartooth Billings Clinic Foundation	$102,116	9	5%
Carbon County Community Food Bank	$90,845	9	12%
Beartooth Trails	$90,441	9	20%
Messiah Lutheran Church	$89,043	2	n/a
Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness Foundation	$82,324	9	6%
Hope Ranch of Montana	$79,560	8	3%
RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp	$69,259	6	6%
Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association	$51,729	1	n/a
Carbon County Arts Guild	$48,961	6	8%
Bighorn Basin Paleotological Institute	$33,110	4	2%
Operation Second Chance Inc	$26,065	3	1%
Jane Ferguson Wilderness Adventure	$25,900	3	n/a
Red Lodge Music Festival Inc	$23,061	3	5%
Meadowlark Childrens Center	$22,080	1	n/a
School of the Beartooths	$20,513	4	3%
Boys & Girls Club of Carbon County	$19,861	1	n/a
Red Lodge Public Schools Foundation Inc	$14,280	2	37%
Palisades Counseling Services	$6,823	1	n/a
Red Lodge Volunteer Firefighter Association	$5,085	1	n/a

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Red Lodge Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 18.

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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.

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Open a dossier: Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc · The Sidney E Frank Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Red Lodge Area Community Foundation

How much does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation give?: Red Lodge Area Community Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $590,545, out of $913,232 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (17%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).
Who are Red Lodge Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helena Area Habitat for Humanity ($456k), Domestic and Sexual Violence Services ($245k), Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary ($178k).
Does Red Lodge Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Red Lodge Area Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc, The Sidney E Frank Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Red Lodge Area Community Foundation based?: Red Lodge Area Community Foundation is based in MT.