How much does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc give?

Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $297,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cascade County Historical Society ($100k), Great Falls Municipal Band ($69k), Central Christian Church ($68k).

Does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.

Where is Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc based?

Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$297k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 64
Grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 23%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $27,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $5.2M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesCommunity 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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	50	$297k	44%
FY2024	26	$242k	23%
FY2023	24	$203k	29%
FY2022	37	$133k	76%
FY2021	12	$63k	75%
FY2020	3	$9k	100%
FY2019	1	$2k	100%
FY2018	1	$2k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$262kReligion$133kHousing & Shelter$88kYouth Development$86kEducation$83kHealth$69kEnvironment$67kPhilanthropy$64kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cascade County Historical Society	$100,000	5	7%
Great Falls Municipal Band	$69,000	4	n/a
Central Christian Church	$68,300	5	n/a
Family Promise of Great Falls	$61,000	4	6%
Recycle Montana Inc	$51,500	4	n/a
Uptown Optimist Foundation Inc	$43,250	5	n/a
Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation	$41,500	3	4%
Sun River Valley Lions Community Foundation	$40,000	2	n/a
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation	$40,000	2	4%
Housed Great Falls	$25,000	3	n/a

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All grantees of Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cascade County Historical Society	$100,000	5	7%
Great Falls Municipal Band	$69,000	4	n/a
Central Christian Church	$68,300	5	n/a
Family Promise of Great Falls	$61,000	4	6%
Recycle Montana Inc	$51,500	4	n/a
Uptown Optimist Foundation Inc	$43,250	5	n/a
Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation	$41,500	3	4%
Sun River Valley Lions Community Foundation	$40,000	2	n/a
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation	$40,000	2	4%
Housed Great Falls	$25,000	3	n/a
Spark Children's Museum of Montana Inc	$22,500	2	6%
Hi-Ine Future Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Great Falls Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Clinic	$20,000	3	4%
Big Sky Country National Heritage Area Inc	$18,500	6	n/a
Alliance for Youth Inc	$18,500	3	1%
Snowy Mountain Development Corp	$17,000	1	2%
Sun River Valley Historical Society	$16,605	4	n/a
Great Falls-Cascade County Senior Citizens Center	$15,000	1	5%
Friends of the Little Belts	$10,000	1	n/a
St Johns Lutheran Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Sawtooth Stables Youth Equestrian Center	$10,000	1	62%
Pet Paw-See Inc	$7,500	5	1%
J C Adams Stone Barn Co	$7,000	4	n/a
Great Falls Community Concert Association	$6,000	4	n/a
Extreme History Project	$5,000	1	3%
Fil Am Great Falls	$5,000	1	n/a
Great Falls Genealogy Society	$5,000	1	n/a
Friends of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks	$4,500	2	2%
Montana Congress of Parents Teachers Students	$4,000	1	n/a
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc	$4,000	3	1%
United Way of Cascade County	$3,500	3	0%
Sams Hope Foundation	$3,000	3	1%
Montana Museum of Railroad History	$3,000	2	n/a
City of Great Falls	$3,000	1	n/a
Great Falls Public Schools Foundation	$3,000	2	0%
McLaughlin Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Friends of Montana Pbs Inc	$2,500	2	0%
Preservation Cascade Inc	$2,500	4	1%
Ursuline Centre Historical Foundation Inc	$2,000	2	1%
Augusta Youth Center	$2,000	2	n/a
Mineral County Historical Society Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Casa of Cascade County	$1,700	3	0%
Ursuline Retreat & Conference Centre	$1,600	1	n/a
YWCA Great Falls	$1,000	1	0%
Montana History Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Ennis Lions Charities Inc dba Ennis Lions Club	$1,000	1	2%
Public Land Water Access Association	$1,000	1	n/a
Great Falls Theatre Company	$1,000	1	n/a
Coeur Dalene Community Theatre and Academy Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
American Prairie Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley	$1,000	1	0%
Lewistown Art Center	$1,000	1	1%
Great Falls Fish Inc	$1,000	1	1%
Great Falls Lgbtq Center	$1,000	1	n/a
Alluvion Health Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtn	$1,000	1	0%
Energy Share of Montana Inc	$700	1	0%
Great Falls Public Library Foundation	$500	1	0%
Frontier Gateway Museum Assoc	$300	2	n/a
Montana Wildlife Federation	$200	1	n/a
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation	$200	1	n/a
Benefis Health System Foundation Inc	$200	1	0%
Montana Free Press	$100	1	n/a
Intermountain Planned Parenthood	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.

Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 33.

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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.

Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT32.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc · Oakland Family Foundation · Davidson Family Foundation · United Way of Cascade County · Browning Kimball Foundation · Humanities Montana

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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About Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc

How much does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc give?: Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $297,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cascade County Historical Society ($100k), Great Falls Municipal Band ($69k), Central Christian Church ($68k).
Does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc based?: Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc is based in DE.