Montana · Public charity
Yellowstone Forever
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ("yf") serves as the official non-profit partner for yellowstone national park ("park"). Yf's purpose is to provide grants and in-kind support to the park through philanthropic and educational initatives
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,288,632
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,288,632
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $71M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Yellowstone Forever funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $4.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $924k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $4.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $5.6M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $5.6M | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Mall and Memorial Parks | $30,704,421 | 9 | n/a |
| US Forest Service | $22,382 | 4 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
About Yellowstone Forever
- How much does Yellowstone Forever give?
- Yellowstone Forever reported 1 itemized grants totaling $2,288,632, out of $5,770,899 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yellowstone Forever fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
- Who are Yellowstone Forever's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Mall and Memorial Parks ($31M), US Forest Service ($22k).
- Does Yellowstone Forever fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Yellowstone Forever based?
- Yellowstone Forever is based in MT.
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