Montana · Community foundation
Sweet Grass Community Foundation
Build relationships and manage funds to focus, strengthen, and advance our community.
- $546k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $433k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,998
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $153,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Sweet Grass Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $433k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $355k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $407k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $527k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $307k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $195k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $236k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Grass County High Schoo | $441,680 | 5 | n/a |
| St Marks Episcopal Church | $238,367 | 4 | n/a |
| Hospitality House Senior Center | $237,100 | 8 | 15% |
| Big Timber Grade School | $220,228 | 3 | n/a |
| Pioneer Medical Center | $163,198 | 5 | n/a |
| Sheepherder Square Foundation | $153,287 | 2 | 9% |
| Pioneer Medical Center | $136,035 | 7 | 0% |
| Sweet Grass Artists Alliance Inc | $121,654 | 8 | 52% |
| Friends of Dornix Park | $104,545 | 8 | n/a |
| Big Timber After School Club | $96,275 | 5 | 33% |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Grass County High Schoo | $441,680 | 5 | n/a |
| St Marks Episcopal Church | $238,367 | 4 | n/a |
| Hospitality House Senior Center | $237,100 | 8 | 15% |
| Big Timber Grade School | $220,228 | 3 | n/a |
| Pioneer Medical Center | $163,198 | 5 | n/a |
| Sheepherder Square Foundation | $153,287 | 2 | 9% |
| Pioneer Medical Center | $136,035 | 7 | 0% |
| Sweet Grass Artists Alliance Inc | $121,654 | 8 | 52% |
| Friends of Dornix Park | $104,545 | 8 | n/a |
| Big Timber After School Club | $96,275 | 5 | 33% |
| Friends of the Big Timber Carnegie Public Library | $87,535 | 6 | 71% |
| Sweet Grass Technical Institute | $72,588 | 6 | 24% |
| Stafford Animal Shelter | $60,315 | 3 | 2% |
| Sweet Grass County Museum Society | $50,936 | 5 | 47% |
| Big Timber Community Food Bank | $42,400 | 2 | 32% |
| Hearts & Hands Hospice | $42,325 | 5 | n/a |
| American Legion Post | $32,860 | 2 | 5% |
| Aspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network | $31,280 | 4 | 1% |
| Melville Lutheran Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sixth Judicial Court Casagal Program Inc | $22,680 | 2 | 9% |
| Sweet Grass County Chamber of Commerce | $22,453 | 2 | 12% |
| Crazy Peak Cattle Women Inc | $19,669 | 3 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Big Sky Country | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| First Congregational Church | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| SG Early Childhood Coalition | $6,357 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Library | $6,159 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sweet Grass Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Park County Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Homestead Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sweet Grass Community Foundation
- How much does Sweet Grass Community Foundation give?
- Sweet Grass Community Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $433,357, out of $546,025 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sweet Grass Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Education (18%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Sweet Grass Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sweet Grass County High Schoo ($442k), St Marks Episcopal Church ($238k), Hospitality House Senior Center ($237k).
- Does Sweet Grass Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sweet Grass Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co, Park County Community Foundation, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
- Where is Sweet Grass Community Foundation based?
- Sweet Grass Community Foundation is based in MT.
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