· Private foundation
The Louvin 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION- BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| MONTANA RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY | $12,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FAITH EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $7,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| FAMILY SERVICE | $7,500 |
| TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BIKENET DBA BILLINGS TRAILNET | $2,500 |
| ANGELA'S PIAZZA INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% 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 +63% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMONTANA RESCUE MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +63%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID YELLOWSTONE VALLEY8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +120%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SJSt John's Foundationone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -14%
- MCMT CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS STUDENTSone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
Caring people, preparing youth for life.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Yellowstone casa is a non-profit organization whose mission is to train and provide volunteers to represent the interests of abused and neglected children in the yellowstone county court system. these court appointed special advocate…
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
Watson children's shelter is dedicated to providing a safe, nurturing, environment for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment or family crisis.
Established in 1997, Yellowstone Recovery was founded to provide a place and a plan for indigent men and women who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Our primary purpose is to help men and women achieve sobriety.
Family promise of gallatin valley in montana is a non-profit organization working with our community to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. we provide prevention services before families reach a…
To address the needs of yellowstone county and to improve lives by connecting and collaborating for a thriving community.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable greater yellowstone ecosystem wildlife while providing a message of education and conservation.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELAS PIAZZA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds St John's Foundation ↗
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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Mkm Foundation Inc · Brosovich Family Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Louvin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Louvin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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