Montana · Private foundation
The Bentley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $210k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bentley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 8 | $210k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $195k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $127k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $126k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $114k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Performance Center | $282,500 | 6 | 14% |
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $225,850 | 5 | 4% |
| Child Bridge Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Catalyst for Change | $65,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Community Leadership & Development Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Friendship House of Christian Service Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Horses Spirits Healing Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Family Service | $21,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Big J Show Cares | $20,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Special K Ranch | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Performance Center | $282,500 | 6 | 14% |
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $225,850 | 5 | 4% |
| Child Bridge Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Catalyst for Change | $65,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Community Leadership & Development Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Friendship House of Christian Service Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Horses Spirits Healing Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Family Service | $21,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Big J Show Cares | $20,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Special K Ranch | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Adullam House Ministries | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Adult Resource Alliance of Yellowstone County | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dog Tag Buddies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bentley Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Harnish Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · The Martin Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bentley Foundation
- How much does The Bentley Foundation give?
- The Bentley Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $210,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bentley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Animals (25%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Bentley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Adaptive Performance Center ($283k), Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter ($226k), Child Bridge Inc ($95k).
- Does The Bentley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bentley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bentley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Gianforte Family Charitable Trust, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bentley Foundation based?
- The Bentley Foundation is based in MT.
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