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Red Lodge Area Community Foundation
The RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION serves our community by connecting people and building community by catalyzing change and leveraging resources to build a strong, vibrant, resilient, inclusive community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $342,799 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $809,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $467,154 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $244k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF RED LODGE | $33,582 |
| YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $23,532 |
| MEADOWLARK CHILDREN'S CENTER | $22,080 |
| BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE | $21,092 |
| BEARTOOTH CHILDRENS' CENTER | $19,555 |
| CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $18,870 |
| BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST | $17,942 |
| DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES | $17,767 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE | $16,304 |
| BEARTOOTH RECREATIONAL TRAILS | $14,498 |
| CARBON COUNT ARTS GUILD | $14,300 |
| BARETOOTH CUPBOARDS CC COMM FOOD BANK | $12,605 |
| BEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION | $12,270 |
| RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION | $9,366 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +8%
- YWYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +31%
- CCCARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- HAHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2023 · $456k · revenue -32%
- RLRED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $213k
- MLMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $89k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide education and research facilities for courses in the areas of geology, botany and other earth and environmental sciences.
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
The Corporation is organized and shall be operated not for profit but exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes within the meaning of Sec. 501(c)(3), 2055, and 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,…
To understand, protect and restore the environment and waters of Bear Lake and to assure that the interests of the public at large are represented and served in the allocation and utilization thereof.
Museum
To preserve, present, and protect local historic sites, documents, artifacts, and stories; and to encourage public awareness and participation through events and activities celebrating our areas rich historical heritage.
The beartooth resource conservation and development area, inc. (beartooth rc&d) is a citizen-driven nonprofit dedicated to building stronger communities. sponsored and directed by local people, rc&d provides a regional framework to improve…
The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.
Promote research and actions to save wildlife.
To perpetuate the common sense use and enjoyment of horses in America's back country, roadless backcountry and wilderness areas. To work to ensure that public lands remain open to recreational stock use. To assist the various government…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beartooth Billings Clinic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bighorn Basin Paleotological Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Buses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Carbon County Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ABSAROKA BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE RANCH OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Beartooth Trails ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp ↗
- Who funds Carbon County Arts Guild ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN BASIN PALEOTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Beartooths ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Red Lodge Area Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.