Montana · Private foundation
Sands Memorial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Sands Memorial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 17 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $118k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $85k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $93k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $78k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $95k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $101k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pintler Pets | $86,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Helena Area Friends of Pets | $62,500 | 9 | 56% |
| Lewis and Clark Humane Society | $56,900 | 9 | 1% |
| Kootenai Pets for Life | $47,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Spay Montana | $44,600 | 6 | 3% |
| Spay Neuter Project of Park County | $43,000 | 9 | 20% |
| Life Savers Animal Rescue | $33,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Beaverhead Animal Shelter | $32,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Dedman Foundation | $25,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Quailwings Rescue | $23,000 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pintler Pets | $86,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Helena Area Friends of Pets | $62,500 | 9 | 56% |
| Lewis and Clark Humane Society | $56,900 | 9 | 1% |
| Kootenai Pets for Life | $47,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Spay Montana | $44,600 | 6 | 3% |
| Spay Neuter Project of Park County | $43,000 | 9 | 20% |
| Life Savers Animal Rescue | $33,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Beaverhead Animal Shelter | $32,500 | 6 | 2% |
| The Dedman Foundation | $25,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Quailwings Rescue | $23,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Pet Paw-See Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Kitty Keepers Inc | $15,800 | 4 | 21% |
| Arlee Rehabilitation Center | $15,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Friends of Havre Animal Shelter | $13,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rezq Dogs | $12,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Nw Montana | $11,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Beartooth Humane Alliance | $11,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Animeals | $10,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Humane Society of Western Montana | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sands Memorial Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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.
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How this is measured
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About Sands Memorial Foundation Inc
- How much does Sands Memorial Foundation Inc give?
- Sands Memorial Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $116,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sands Memorial Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (97%), Health (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are Sands Memorial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pintler Pets ($86k), Helena Area Friends of Pets ($63k), Lewis and Clark Humane Society ($57k).
- Does Sands Memorial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sands Memorial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sands Memorial Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Morgan Family Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sands Memorial Foundation Inc based?
- Sands Memorial Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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