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Seeley Lake Community Foundation
The SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION engages in philanthropy, provides leadership, and enhances the quality of life and economic vitality of the seeley lake area.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $175k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,310
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,604
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $929k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Seeley Lake Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 14 | $121k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $97k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $60k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $72k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $54k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $62k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $109k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Artisans Inc | $106,681 | 9 | 17% |
| Swan Valley Connections | $68,256 | 7 | 1% |
| Upper Swan Valley Historical Society Inc | $63,879 | 7 | 22% |
| Seeley Lake Elem School | $49,946 | 1 | n/a |
| Sela Senci (Think Young) | $44,461 | 5 | 12% |
| Sparrows Vine | $40,190 | 5 | 7% |
| Blackfoot Challenge Inc | $40,025 | 5 | 1% |
| Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited Inc | $39,700 | 5 | 2% |
| Seeley Lake Regional Outdoor Center for Kinetic Sports | $34,773 | 5 | n/a |
| Seeley Lake Area Chamber of Commerce | $23,332 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Artisans Inc | $106,681 | 9 | 17% |
| Swan Valley Connections | $68,256 | 7 | 1% |
| Upper Swan Valley Historical Society Inc | $63,879 | 7 | 22% |
| Seeley Lake Elem School | $49,946 | 1 | n/a |
| Sela Senci (Think Young) | $44,461 | 5 | 12% |
| Sparrows Vine | $40,190 | 5 | 7% |
| Blackfoot Challenge Inc | $40,025 | 5 | 1% |
| Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited Inc | $39,700 | 5 | 2% |
| Seeley Lake Regional Outdoor Center for Kinetic Sports | $34,773 | 5 | n/a |
| Seeley Lake Area Chamber of Commerce | $23,332 | 3 | n/a |
| Seeley Lake Nordic Ski Club | $15,321 | 2 | 7% |
| Seeley-Swan Community Food Bank Inc | $12,852 | 2 | n/a |
| Seeley Lake Historical Museum and Visitors Center | $12,703 | 2 | n/a |
| Ovando School District | $12,181 | 1 | n/a |
| Missoula Electric Cooperative Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seeley-Swan Medical Center Foundation | $9,695 | 1 | 63% |
| Clearwater Resource Council | $8,379 | 1 | 9% |
| Seeley Lake Elementary School | $7,608 | 1 | n/a |
| Protect the Clearwater | $7,310 | 1 | n/a |
| Missoula Area Agency on Aging Inc | $6,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Seeley Lake Elementary Parent Teacher Club | $6,361 | 1 | n/a |
| Missoula County Public Schools | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission Bible Fellowship | $5,623 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeley Lake Historical Society | $5,108 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Seeley Lake Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Seeley Lake Community Foundation
- How much does Seeley Lake Community Foundation give?
- Seeley Lake Community Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $174,679, out of $219,735 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seeley Lake Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (21%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Seeley Lake Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alpine Artisans Inc ($107k), Swan Valley Connections ($68k), Upper Swan Valley Historical Society Inc ($64k).
- Does Seeley Lake Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Seeley Lake Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gianforte Family Charitable Trust, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Seeley Lake Community Foundation based?
- Seeley Lake Community Foundation is based in MT.
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