· Private foundation
The Gram 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $24,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $17,000 |
| K9 CARE MONTANA INC | $15,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WARRIORS IN QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GETHSEMANE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BOZEMAN SENIOR SOCIAL CENTER INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 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
Culver Educational Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +69%- KCK9 CARE MONTANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +147%
- WQWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +83%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -9%- BHBozeman Health Deaconess Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +47%
- BSBOZEMAN SWIMMING CLUBone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
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.
To improve community health and quality of life.
Boulder Swim Teams mission is to create a fun safe supportive and challenging environment and to enable our athletes to excel at swimming and create lifelong bonds. We strive to develop excellent character producing not just strong…
Southwest Montana Community Health Center is guided by its Mission to "Inspire Hope and Empower Wellness by Providing Access to Comprehensive Healthcare".
The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.
To provide the opportunity and means for friends and neighbors to give financial support to Glendive Medical Center.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds K9 CARE MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SENIOR SOCIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SWIMMING CLUB ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gram Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gram Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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