· Private foundation
The Bibler Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONRAD MANSION MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAND TRUST | $12,000 |
| NORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FVCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FLATHEAD FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WARMING CENTER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Bibler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 64%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- FLFLATHEAD LAND TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +349%
- NMNORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +189%
- FFFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- SVSMITH VALLEY FIRE DEPTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 17 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.
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 · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · The Applied Materials Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bibler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bibler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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