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Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,050
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving36$61k28%
FY202430$56k27%
FY202333$57k30%
FY202222$60k27%
FY202130$70k43%
FY202020$53k40%
FY201927$59k56%
FY201819$63kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$299kArts & Culture$59kYouth Development$34kHuman Services$22kRecreation & Sports$21kInternational$8kScience & Tech$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MN
IL
WY
SD
IA
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Black Hills Mining Museum$15,78455%
Historic Homestake Opera House Society$15,72551%
Augustana University Association$14,50030%
Northern Hills Alliance for Children$10,17561%
Junior Achievement of South Dakota$7,80060%
Deadwood History Inc$5,50030%
University of Sioux Falls$5,00010%
Dakota Wesleyan University$4,25020%
Augustana College$4,0001n/a
University of Jamestown$3,00010%
Northern Hills Area Casa Program$3,00050%
Lords Cupboard$2,5001n/a
Twin City Clothing Center$2,5004n/a
Lead Community Center Foundation$2,0001n/a
Bluesoul$2,0001n/a
Morningside University$1,50010%
University of Denver$1,50010%
Lawrence County Coalition$1,50010%
Kjzzkbaq (Through Maricopa Community Colleges)$1,0001n/a
glendale community college$1,0001n/a
Lead Area Chamber of Commerce$1,00011%
Lead Library Endowment Inc$7503n/a
Northwest College$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlack Hills Mining Museum: $15,784 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHistoric Homestake Opera House Society: $15,725 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAugustana University Association: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Hills Alliance for Children: $10,175 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJunior Achievement of South Dakota: $7,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDeadwood History Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Sioux Falls: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDakota Wesleyan University: $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Jamestown: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Hills Area Casa Program: $3,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMorningside University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence County Coalition: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLead Area Chamber of Commerce: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 14.

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.

South Dakota Community FoundationSD21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Dakota Community Foundation · James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust · The Leonard Rydell Foundation · La Amundson Ohana Foundation · Adams Mastrovich Fam Fdn · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust

How much does Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust give?
Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust reported 40 grants totaling $60,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Arts & Culture (12%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Black Hills Mining Museum ($16k), Historic Homestake Opera House Society ($16k), Augustana University Association ($15k).
Does Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Dakota Community Foundation, James E & Lillian E Shea Charitable Trust, The Leonard Rydell Foundation.
Where is Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust based?
Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust 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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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