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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.

$913k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $590,545, the rows itemized in this filing. The $913,232 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $322,687 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
$14,845
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$85,131
YELLOWSTONE BIGHORN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION$51,729
Individual grant recipient$42,795
Individual grant recipient$39,798
ROMAN THEATER LLP$39,679
BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE$32,318
DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES$31,345
YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$29,208
BEARTOOTH RECREATIONAL TRAILS$26,452
CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,126
CITY OF RED LODGE$24,080
BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST$21,480
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARBON COUNTY$19,861
BARETOOTH CUPBOARDS CC COMM FOOD BANK$14,845
RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION$14,092
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ZIER GALLARY: $40k → 9%ROCKY MOUNTAIN COURTS: $43k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARBON COUNTY: $20k → 14%CITY OF RED LODGE: $469k → 9%RED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $213k → 9%MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH: $89k → 9%YODELER MOTEL: $85k → 9%YELLOWSTONE BIGHORN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $52k → 9%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $51k → 9%BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST: $51k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE: $45k → 9%RED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT #7: $43k → 9%ROMAN THEATER LLP: $40k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE: $38k → 9%CITY OF RED LODGE: $34k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $33k → 9%RED LODGE RECYCLING: $33k → 9%DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $33k → 9%BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $32k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $32k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $31k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $29k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $29k → 9%RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $27k → 9%BEARTOOTH RECREATIONAL TRAILS: $26k → 9%CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%CITY OF RED LODGE: $24k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $24k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $24k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $23k → 9%MEADOWLARK CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE: $22k → 9%BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST: $21k → 9%ABSAROKA BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $21k → 9%BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $21k → 9%BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST: $21k → 9%BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%BEARTOOTH CHILDRENS' CENTER: $20k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $19k → 9%CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19k → 9%BUSES OF YELLOWSTONE PRESERVATION TRUST: $18k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $18k → 9%DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $17k → 9%YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $17k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE: $17k → 9%CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE: $17k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 28 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -32% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

$2.4M
$964k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-32%

Still filing today

57%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YW
    YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +15%
  • BH
    BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • HA
    HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2023 · $456k · revenue -32%
  • RL
    RED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $213k
  • ML
    MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $89k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment
2
Bear Lake Watch

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.

Environment
3
Scenic Montana Trails
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4
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
5
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
6
Back County Horsemen of Montana

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…

Environment
7
Black Rock Historical Society
Arts & Culture
8
Friends of the Bridger Public Library
Philanthropy
9
Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation Inc

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.

Animals
10
Friends of Red Lodge Airport

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,…

Community Improvement
11
4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H Organizations Beaverhead

Promote and support 4-h club work in beaverhead county montana

Youth Development
12
Blaine County Wildlife Museum Foundation

To establish and operate the blaine county wildlife museum with the intent to provide quality wildlife museum exhibiting montana wildlife in their natural habitats, complete with audio and visual enhancement.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Red Lodge and the Beartooth Front Inc; the most unlike its peers is Red Lodge Music Festival Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF RED LODGE: $526,862 · OtherCITY OF RED LODGEHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $456,319 · OtherHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYDOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES: $244,834 · OtherDOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICESRED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $212,500 · OtherRED LODGE RURAL FIRE DISTRICTBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INC: $165,870 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INCMESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH: $89,043 · Other+40 more: $949,254 · Other+40 moreYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $177,843 · EnvironmentABSAROKA BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $82,324 · EnvironmentCARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $127,975 · Arts & CultureBuses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated: $123,452 · Arts & CultureBEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $102,116 · PhilanthropyRED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp: $69,259 · PhilanthropyBEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $109,730 · AnimalsCarbon County Community Food Bank: $90,845 · Community ImprovementBeartooth Trails: $90,441 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,644,682Environment$260,167Arts & Culture$251,427Philanthropy$171,375Animals$109,730Community Improvement$90,845Recreation & Sports$90,441

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $456,319 over 1y, 23% of budgetYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $177,843 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INC: $165,870 over 8y, 14% of budgetCARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $127,975 over 9y, 18% of budgetBuses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated: $123,452 over 6y, 23% of budgetBEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $109,730 over 7y, 13% of budgetBEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $102,116 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetCarbon County Community Food Bank: $90,845 over 9y, 12% of budgetBeartooth Trails: $90,441 over 9y, 20% of budgetABSAROKA BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $82,324 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetHOPE RANCH OF MONTANA: $79,560 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetRED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp: $69,259 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCarbon County Arts Guild: $48,961 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetBIGHORN BASIN PALEOTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $33,110 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $26,065 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRED LODGE MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $23,061 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSchool of the Beartooths: $20,513 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetRED LODGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $14,280 over 2y, 37% of budget
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 HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RED LODGE AND THE BEARTOOTH FRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Buses Of Yellowstone Preservation Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds BEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BEARTOOTH BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carbon County Community Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Beartooth Trails ↗
  • Who funds ABSAROKA BEARTOOTH WILDERNESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RANCH OF MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds RED LODGE FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION a Montana Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp ↗
  • Who funds Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association ↗
  • 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 School of the Beartooths ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARBON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds RED LODGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Op & We Edwards Found…The Sidney E Frank Fo…Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Op & We Edwards Foundation IncMT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Red Lodge Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Lodge Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 55 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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