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Yellowstone Club Community Foundation
The YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION provides resources to qualified nonprofit organizations in the greater big sky and gallatin valley area that promote community service, education, and conservation.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Yellowstone Club Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 40 | $2.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.9M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $3.2M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $2.5M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $4.3M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $3.8M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $395k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $359k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sky Community Organization | $8,285,361 | 8 | 40% |
| Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht | $1,400,000 | 4 | 29% |
| Bozeman Deaconess Foundation | $1,015,300 | 3 | 11% |
| Big Sky School District | $924,480 | 4 | n/a |
| Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc | $692,120 | 7 | 1% |
| Morningstar Learning Center Inc | $688,652 | 6 | 20% |
| Friends of Big Sky Education | $590,870 | 8 | 22% |
| The Discovery Land Company Foundation | $532,673 | 1 | 27% |
| Wellness in Action | $397,223 | 7 | 24% |
| Big Sky Ski Education Foundation | $344,920 | 6 | 9% |
Show all 79 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Yellowstone Club Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Moonlight Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · The Rieschel Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services
How this is measured
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About Yellowstone Club Community Foundation
- How much does Yellowstone Club Community Foundation give?
- Yellowstone Club Community Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,262,620, out of $2,543,974 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Yellowstone Club Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (32%), Environment (19%), Health (13%).
- Who are Yellowstone Club Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Sky Community Organization ($8.3M), Big Sky Community Housing Trust Bscht ($1.4M), Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ($1.0M).
- Does Yellowstone Club Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Yellowstone Club Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moonlight Community Foundation, One Valley Community Foundation, Spanish Peaks Community Foundation.
- Where is Yellowstone Club Community Foundation based?
- Yellowstone Club Community Foundation is based in MT.
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