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The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$206k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$5.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$206k75%
FY20246$423k50%
FY20234$275k100%
FY20224$235k25%
FY20213$118k33%
FY20209$324kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$358kArts & Culture$345kEducation$265kHousing & Shelter$210kYouth Development$200kHuman Services$190kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thrive Inc$200,00037%
Belgrade Community Library Foundation$150,000330%
Bozeman Symphony Society$115,00023%
Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc$110,00012%
Help Center Inc$110,00012%
Habitat for Humanity of Gallatin Valley Inc$100,00018%
Montana Theatreworks Inc$100,00019%
Bridgercare$60,00020%
Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc$50,00011%
The Literacy Center$40,00015%
Bozeman Deaconess Foundation$40,00010%
Community Health Partners Inc$25,00010%
Haven$20,00011%
Potential$13,0002n/a
Montana Chamber Music Society$3,5001n/a
Brockway Area Historical Society$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($443k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThrive Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBelgrade Community Library Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetBozeman Symphony Society: $115,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHelp Center Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Gallatin Valley Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMontana Theatreworks Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBridgercare: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWarriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Literacy Center: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Health Partners Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHaven: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBrockway Area Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Gilhousen Family FoundationMT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gilhousen Family Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · One Valley Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana

How much does The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana give?
The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana reported 4 grants totaling $206,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (17%).
Who are The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Thrive Inc ($200k), Belgrade Community Library Foundation ($150k), Bozeman Symphony Society ($115k).
Does The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gilhousen Family Foundation, Greater Gallatin United Way Inc, Yellowstone Club Community Foundation.
Where is The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana based?
The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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