· Private foundation
William and Lorene Nefsy 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 · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Beaver Creek Lodge Inc | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| Fergus Wrestling Club Inc | $12,000 |
| Beaverhead County High School | $12,000 |
| Wild Horse Sports Association | $11,500 |
| Bonner School District | $7,000 |
| WaterWorks Art Museum | $3,500 |
| Huntley Project Museum | $750 |
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 (FY23–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2022 · $63k · revenue -42%
- WAWATERWORKS ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue -27%
- BCBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MCMILES COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UWUM Western Foundationone grant, 2021 · $48k
- DCDawson Community College Athleticsone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
Provide funding for the improvement & enhancement of the Beaverhead County Fairgrounds.
To establish and operate the blaine county wildlife museum with the intent to provide quality wildlife museum exhibiting montana wildlife in their natural habitats, complete with audio and visual enhancement.
To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.
To build and maintain trails in the Missouri River Headwaters Area.
To promote healthy lifestyles and physical fitness by operating, improving and maintaining an ice rink facility for youth activities and public benefit for the city of whitefish, montana. the ice rink facility is owned by the city of…
Teaching and supporting shooting sports
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
To preserve the architectual integrity of the structure and the significance of the miles city academy building as it relates to eastern montana's history
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 77 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 BOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CENTER FOR HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pondera Rec Association ↗
- Who funds WILDHORSE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
- Who funds Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Albert & E Bender Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 William and Lorene Nefsy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Lorene Nefsy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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