Montana · Private foundation
Sample Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $555k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2024
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 78
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Sample Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 76 | $555k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $2.1M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $486k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $455k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $395k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowstone Art Museum | $1,547,400 | 2 | 69% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Richland County | $64,432 | 5 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Yellowstone County | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Billings Public Schools | $60,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity Missoula Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Florence Crittenton Home and Services | $49,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Haven | $49,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Friendship Center of Helena Inc | $47,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 87 recipients with no EIN on record ($627k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sample Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The High Stakes Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sample Foundation Inc
- How much does Sample Foundation Inc give?
- Sample Foundation Inc reported 76 grants totaling $555,315 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sample Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Human Services (14%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Sample Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Yellowstone Art Museum ($1.5M), Boys & Girls Club of Richland County ($64k), Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County ($60k).
- Does Sample Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sample Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sample Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sample Foundation Inc based?
- Sample Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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