· Private foundation
Selah Charitable Trust
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - GREAT FISH CHALLENGE | $14,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAKERS | $4,000 |
| CAMP SPALDING | $2,500 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FEAST WORLD KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| WILD WONDER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| WEST SHORE FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| BLACKFOOT CHALENGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 33% of Selah Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +8% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Big Table8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +197%
- FLFLATHEAD LAKERS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +28%
- CSCamp Spalding7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- ARA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +75%
- NYNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -14%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7k
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 montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 67 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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Big Table ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Spalding ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Wild Wonder Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST SHORE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS ENCOUNTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Feast Collective ↗
- Who funds Montana Environmental Information Center ↗
- Who funds Trap Free Montana 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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The Kendeda Fund · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · The Angora Ridge Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Selah Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Selah Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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