Montana · Private foundation
The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc
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.
- $84k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 16 | $84k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $84k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $87k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $93k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $90k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $84k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $78k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $90k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $137,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Antelope Butte Foundation Inc | $46,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Watson Children's Shelter Inc | $44,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $43,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Missoula Art Museum | $34,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Clark Fork Coalition | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Homes | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mountain Home Montana Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc · United Way of Missoula County · Werler Family Charitable Foundation · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Louis L Borick Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc
- How much does The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc give?
- The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Volunteers of America Northern Rockies ($137k), Antelope Butte Foundation Inc ($46k), Watson Children's Shelter Inc ($45k).
- Does The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc based?
- The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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