Montana · Private foundation
Wagon Mountain 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $642k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $75k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $72k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $72k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $114k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $106k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $102k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $83k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $89k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poverello Center Inc | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Five Valleys Land Trust | $63,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $61,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Montana Food Bank Network Inc | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth Homes | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Garden City Harvest Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeword Inc | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Clark Fork Coalition | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Development Network of the Americas | $30,000 | 6 | 25% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poverello Center Inc | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Five Valleys Land Trust | $63,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $61,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Montana Food Bank Network Inc | $46,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth Homes | $40,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Garden City Harvest Inc | $38,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeword Inc | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Clark Fork Coalition | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Development Network of the Americas | $30,000 | 6 | 25% |
| Missoula AIDS Funds Inc Dba Open Aid Alliance | $22,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Blue Mountain Clinic Inc | $18,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Missoula Interfaith Collaborative | $17,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Glacier Institute Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity Missoula Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Watson Children's Shelter Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freedom Gardens | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Missoula Community Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The Thendara Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Voice Foundation · United Way of Missoula County
How this is measured
About Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc
- How much does Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc give?
- Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $74,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Poverello Center Inc ($81k), Five Valleys Land Trust ($64k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($61k).
- Does Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wagon Mountain 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 Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc based?
- Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc is based in MT.
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