Illinois · Private foundation
Red Lodge Foundation
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.
- $321k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,128
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 33
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Red Lodge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $320k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $274k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $291k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $276k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $245k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $250k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $258k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Bicycle Relief Nfp | $361,558 | 7 | 1% |
| Smile Train Inc | $145,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa | $91,520 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $90,330 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Celiac Disease Foundation | $40,309 | 4 | 0% |
| Building Peaceful Bridges | $30,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Red Lodge Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Red Lodge Foundation
- How much does Red Lodge Foundation give?
- Red Lodge Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $321,249 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Red Lodge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), International (37%), Education (9%).
- Who are Red Lodge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: World Bicycle Relief Nfp ($362k), Smile Train Inc ($145k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($115k).
- Does Red Lodge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Red Lodge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Red Lodge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Circle of Service Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Red Lodge Foundation based?
- Red Lodge Foundation is based in IL.
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