· Private foundation
Solid Rock Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| PARK CNTY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS(PCFA) | $5,000 |
| ASPEN | $5,000 |
| COUNTERPOINT INC | $3,250 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY INC | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| FAST BLACKFEET | $1,500 |
| LOAVES & FISHES OF LIVINGSTON | $1,500 |
| THE MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE HRDC | $1,000 |
| MONTANA FREE PRESS | $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 (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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
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 +80% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2021, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LHLivingston Healthcare Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +65%
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC6× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +141%
- ASASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK3× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +706%
Funded once
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +40%
- LRLIVINGSTON ROTARY CLUB FNDTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MDMISSOULA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +78%
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.
Montana center for the arts purpose is to nurture, promote and expand cultural engagement and opportunity in our region. through collaboration with the community at large, and in partnership with the area's diverse cultural and educational…
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
The organization's mission is to connect rural students, families, and community members to behavioral and mental health solutions while protecting their social well-being and fostering a resilience to thrive.
The purpose of the montana continuum of care coalition is to end homelessness in montana through effective leadership and collaboration. (to make homelessness in montana rare, brief and non-recurring)
The montana preservation alliance (mpa) saves and protects montana's historic places, traditional landscapes, and cultural heritage. we are the only statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing montanans with the resources…
The livingston depot foundation is a non-profit organization committed to enriching the lives of residents of livingston and surrounding, communities, and tourists to the yellowstone area by: 1. restoring, preserving and protecting the…
To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Counterpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAST BLACKFEET ↗
- Who funds PAYDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROW LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Solid Rock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solid Rock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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