Montana · Private foundation
The High Stakes Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 82
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The High Stakes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $617k 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 | 57 | $1.0M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 82 | $1.9M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $884k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.1M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $703k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $998k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, 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 | $180,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Community Food and Agriculture Coalition | $165,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Northern Plains Resource Council | $165,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Empower Mt | $159,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Montana Environmental Information Center | $136,200 | 6 | 3% |
| Montana Free Press | $135,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Park County Environmental Council | $130,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Vital Ground Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Montana Budget and Policy Center | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Garden City Harvest Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 135 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($626k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The High Stakes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Treacy Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
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About The High Stakes Foundation
- How much does The High Stakes Foundation give?
- The High Stakes Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,125,337 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The High Stakes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Arts & Culture (12%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The High Stakes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maps Media Institute Inc ($180k), Community Food and Agriculture Coalition ($166k), Northern Plains Resource Council ($165k).
- Does The High Stakes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The High Stakes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The High Stakes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, The Kendeda Fund.
- Where is The High Stakes Foundation based?
- The High Stakes Foundation is based in MT.
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