· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Volunteers of America Northern Rockies | $20,000 |
| Missoula Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Watson Children's Shelter | $5,000 |
| Missoula Art Museum | $5,000 |
| American Red Cross | $5,000 |
| Missoula Youth Homes | $5,000 |
| Clark Fork Coalition | $5,000 |
| Public Media Company | $5,000 |
| University of Montana Foundation | $5,000 |
| Mountain Home Montana | $5,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $5,000 |
| The Food Group | $3,000 |
| Antelope Butte Foundation | $3,000 |
| Surfrider Foundation | $3,000 |
| Science Kids | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES7× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +226%
- ABANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +116%
- WCWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SCSHERIDAN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1one grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IFINTREPID FALLEN HEROS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Provide food for individuals in need
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 45 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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE KIDS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Beaverhead Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA NORDIC SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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