Montana · Private foundation
The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 45 | $375k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $373k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $377k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $282k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $337k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $356k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $321k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $299k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Missoula County | $337,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Youth Homes | $216,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Montana Food Bank Network Inc | $106,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mountain Home Montana Inc | $87,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Partners Hope Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Child Bridge Inc | $56,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The LifeGuard Group Inc | $55,510 | 3 | 17% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County | $48,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre | $47,500 | 8 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
- How much does The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation give?
- The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $379,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Missoula County ($337k), Youth Homes ($216k), Montana Food Bank Network Inc ($107k).
- Does The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana.
- Where is The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation based?
- The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation is based in MT.
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