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Solid Rock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants FY2021
19
Organizations funded FY2021
32%
First-time grantees FY2021
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50% of Solid Rock Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Park County Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Solid Rock Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
15
’18
17
’19
18
’20
15
’21
4
’22
2
’23
5
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$1,750
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 27
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$662k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 32% of the organizations Solid Rock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202119$40k32%
FY202023$42k22%
FY201927$39k15%
FY201826$42k31%
FY201723$35kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$63kPhilanthropy$56kHuman Services$28kHealth$24kFood & Nutrition$19kInternational$14kCrime & Legal$12kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Solid Rock Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $21,100 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMusic Associates of Aspen Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Midwife Education Foundation: $14,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetAspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network: $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of the Community Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCounterpoint Inc: $7,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLivingston Food Pantry of Park County: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Shane Lalani Center for the Arts: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChild Care Connections Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Sustainability Exchange: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMontana Racial Equity Project: $3,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMontana Food Bank Network Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoverello Center Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFast Blackfeet: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPayden Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCrow Language Consortium Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLivingston Center for Art and Culture Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetStafford Animal Shelter: $1,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Missoula: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Free Press: $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMissoula Developmental Service Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZootown Arts Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBozeman Field School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Closet Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Park County Community FoundationMT34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Park County Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Glassybaby Foundation · The McNeely Foundation · The Stake Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Solid Rock Foundation

How much does Solid Rock Foundation give?
Solid Rock Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Solid Rock Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (20%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Solid Rock Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Livingston Healthcare Foundation ($21k), Music Associates of Aspen Inc ($16k), Global Midwife Education Foundation ($14k).
Does Solid Rock Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Solid Rock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Solid Rock Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Park County Community Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, The Kendeda Fund.
Where is Solid Rock Foundation based?
Solid Rock Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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