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The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$213k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$53,530
Organizations funded a year
20 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$65k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$213k5%
FY202320$234k30%
FY202222$223k36%
FY202121$256k24%
FY202026$192k46%
FY201921$100k48%
FY201825$197k44%
FY201720$105kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$350kHealth$335kPhilanthropy$255kYouth Development$152kEmployment$128kEducation$77kEnvironment$58kRecreation & Sports$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
WI
NY
SD
IN
CA
VA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eagle Mount$244,43082%
Reach Inc$95,60081%
Thrive Inc$69,00071%
Gallatin Valley Land Trust$58,00080%
Bozeman Deaconess Foundation$55,00031%
St Labre Indian School$52,5007n/a
Haven$50,90081%
Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc$45,80051%
Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services$35,15030%
Special Olympics Montana Inc$32,50060%
Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($620k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEagle Mount: $244,430 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetReach Inc: $95,600 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetThrive Inc: $69,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGallatin Valley Land Trust: $58,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHaven: $50,900 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBig Sky Youth Empowerment Project Inc: $45,800 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $35,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Montana Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFlathead Library Foundation: $24,200 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMontana Outdoor Science School: $21,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHeart of the Valley Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoots Family Collaborative: $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCancer Support Community of Montana: $9,525 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNami Minnesota: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDirect Relief: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirefly Sisterhood: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBigfork Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPeople Reaching Out to Other People Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasting for Recovery: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hope Chest for Breast Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGallatin County Love Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedshare International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAct for Multiple Sclerosis: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFilm Independent: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Disabilities Association Inc: $780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifescape: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStafford Animal Shelter: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Bigfork Fire Department: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVeterans in Need Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 35.

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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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · One Valley Community Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gilhousen Family Foundation · Morgan Family Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Assurant Foundation · First Security Bank 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 Susan Kay Pederson Foundation

How much does The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation give?
The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $212,755 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Eagle Mount ($244k), Reach Inc ($96k), Thrive Inc ($69k).
Does The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation 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 Susan Kay Pederson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
Where is The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation based?
The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation 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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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