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.

Red Lodge Foundation

Red Lodge Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$735kInternational$704kEducation$174kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kRecreation & Sports$68kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $53k
$10k–50k12 grants · $163k
$50k–250k2 grants · $105k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP	$55,128
LURIE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION	$50,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$32,264
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$20,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$20,000
NPH USA FKA FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS	$11,080
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$10,000
SMILE TRAIN	$10,000
CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$10,000
BOSTON COLLEGE	$10,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR UKRAINE	$10,000
BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO	$10,000
WBEZ	$8,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 42 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-3%

Still filing today

67%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
7× · 2019–2025 · $362k · revenue +72%
SMILE TRAIN INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +26%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +79%

Funded once

UO
University of Chicago Medical Centergraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +45%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
one grant, 2021 · $5k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CAL AT SAN DIEGO
one grant, 2022 · $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.

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is World Bicycle Relief Nfp. 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

57 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. 57 of the 100 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

35/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$922,592Public Safety & Disaster$361,558International$301,166Education$113,245Human Services$93,954Environment$71,136Health$56,952

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.

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.

Circle of Service FoundationIL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home