· Private foundation
The Samuel Gary Jr Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PEREGRINE FUND | $95,000 |
| MONTANA CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| MONTANA CONSERVATION FUND | $10,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $6,000 |
| COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $6,000 |
| HEROES AND HORSES | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Samuel Gary Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +122%
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +133%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TTTHE TAIMEN FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -95%
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +54%
- FOFriends of the Lower Blue Rivergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +378%
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 teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
In 2025, the salmonfly project advanced its mission to conserve aquatic insects and the ecosystems they support through expanded monitoring, research, and public engagement across the western unted states. we completed annual aquatic…
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TAIMEN FUND ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Lower Blue River ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Samuel Gary Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel Gary Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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