Montana · Private foundation
The Greater Montana Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $360k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $47,737
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Greater Montana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $360k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $345k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $348k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $327k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $277k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $315k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $378k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $280k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maps Media Institute Inc | $426,500 | 8 | 24% |
| Friends of Montana Pbs Inc | $347,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Montana Broadcasters Association | $170,533 | 5 | 14% |
| Montana Free Press | $130,000 | 7 | 5% |
| From The Heart Productions | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $95,647 | 5 | n/a |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montana History Foundation | $28,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Philipsburg Arts Fund Inc | $24,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bear Hug Cattle Co | $23,500 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($956k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Greater Montana Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Humanities Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Montana History Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Treacy Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Greater Montana Foundation
- How much does The Greater Montana Foundation give?
- The Greater Montana Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $359,737 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Greater Montana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Community Improvement (7%), Education (3%).
- Who are The Greater Montana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maps Media Institute Inc ($427k), Friends of Montana Pbs Inc ($348k), Montana Broadcasters Association ($171k).
- Does The Greater Montana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Greater Montana Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Greater Montana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Humanities Montana, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Greater Montana Foundation based?
- The Greater Montana Foundation is based in MT.
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