Montana · Private foundation
Shields Valley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $166k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Shields Valley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $10k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $18k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $21k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $13k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $19k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $17k | n/a |
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 grants in FY2025.
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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About Shields Valley Foundation Inc
- How much does Shields Valley Foundation Inc give?
- Shields Valley Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Shields Valley Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Does Shields Valley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shields Valley Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Shields Valley Foundation Inc based?
- Shields Valley Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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