· Community foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $53,604 |
| ALPINE ARTISANS INC | $22,270 |
| UPPER SWAN VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIET | $12,706 |
| SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS | $11,827 |
| SELA SENCI | $10,100 |
| CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL | $8,379 |
| SEELEY LAKE ROCKS | $8,237 |
| PROTECT THE CLEARWATER | $7,310 |
| SEELEY-SWAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $6,989 |
| PARENT TEACHER CLUB AT SLE | $6,361 |
| SEELEY SWAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,800 |
| BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE | $5,789 |
| SEELEY LAKE NORDIC SKI CLUB | $5,184 |
| SEELEY LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,108 |
| SPARROW'S VINE PREGNANCY RESOURCE | $5,015 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAALPINE ARTISANS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +43%
- SVSWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +90%
- USUPPER SWAN VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SLSEELEY LAKE ELEM SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $50k
- SLSEELEY LAKE SEWER DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $19k
- WIWINDFALL INCone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
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.
The mission of the Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (LCFWG) is to facilitate collaboration among watershed stakeholders and to coordinate efforts to maintain, enhance, and restore the ecological integrity of tributaries to the lower Clark…
To help keep ranches in the madison valley viable and promote good stewardship, promote open space, and healthy way of life that has western values and clean water and wildlife habitate and healthy ranchlands.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…
To preserve, research, and interpret to the public through its collections, exhibits and programs the physical and cultural heritage of the rocky mountain front region in the state of montana.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
Watershed and rivers restoration, preservation and protection
Regional conservation organization
Working for a wild yaak through science, education, and bold action.
The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ALPINE ARTISANS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds UPPER SWAN VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SELA SENCI (THINK YOUNG) ↗
- Who funds SPARROWS VINE ↗
- Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BLACKFOOT CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds SEELEY LAKE NORDIC SKI CLUB ↗
- Who funds Missoula Electric Cooperative Inc ↗
- Who funds SEELEY-SWAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seeley Lake Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seeley Lake Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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