Montana · Private foundation
The Angora Ridge Foundation
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.
- $422k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Angora Ridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $422k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $522k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $568k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $439k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $387k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $441k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $332k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $365k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Innocence Project | $974,575 | 9 | 50% |
| Montana Food Bank Network Inc | $223,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Valley Food Bank | $146,000 | 7 | 6% |
| North Valley Music School | $119,740 | 8 | 3% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Outdoor Community Partners | $77,000 | 1 | 77% |
| Montana Land to Hand | $51,250 | 5 | 3% |
| League to Save Lake Tahoe | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dream Adaptive Recreation Inc | $42,000 | 4 | 2% |
| College Bound Opportunities | $25,250 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Angora Ridge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · Bayne Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Roundup for Safety Inc · Tamarack Foundation Inc · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Ammon Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Angora Ridge Foundation
- How much does The Angora Ridge Foundation give?
- The Angora Ridge Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $421,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Angora Ridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (26%), Civil Rights (23%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Angora Ridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Montana Innocence Project ($975k), Montana Food Bank Network Inc ($223k), North Valley Food Bank ($146k).
- Does The Angora Ridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Angora Ridge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Angora Ridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Angora Ridge Foundation based?
- The Angora Ridge Foundation is based in MT.
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