· Private foundation
The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH HOMES | $51,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $35,000 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME | $20,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MISSOULA COUNTY | $8,000 |
| SUMMIT CAREER CENTER | $7,500 |
| WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC | $7,500 |
| YWCA | $7,500 |
| MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $7,500 |
| SANDERS CO COUNCIL ON AGING | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $337k · revenue +49%
- YHYOUTH HOMES8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +11%
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- MBMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +138%
- NLNORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -84%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM FOREST SERVICE HSTRYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy
To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 126 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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds STEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WRITING COACHES OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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