Foundations · IRS 990 filings
Foundations in Billings, Montana
- 93
- foundations with a Billings address
- $22.2M
- grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
- 45
- say they accept unsolicited
- $4,686
- median grant
Grantlas lists 93 foundations that gave a Billings, Montana address on their tax filing — 87 private foundations and 6 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $22.2 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 45 of them (48%) say they accept unsolicited requests.
Not every foundation here is a Billings foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.
Top 25 of 93 foundations
All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 20 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.
| Funder | Median grant | Grants paid, latest filing | Grant range | Filing year | Fit score & contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Interstate BancSystem Foundation | $2,500 | $5M | $65 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Charles M Bair Memorial Trust | $22,248 | $1.8M | $1,224 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Jorgensen Charitable Trust - Closing | $10,000 | $1.3M | $5,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Charles M Bair Family Trust | $15,000 | $1M | $2,000 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Sample Foundation Inc | $5,000 | $555,315 | $1,000 | FY2023 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| The Montana Opioid Abatement Trust | $70,000 | $334,638 | $11,198 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Hollis and Helen Baright Foundation | $75,000 | $249,000 | $4,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| The Bentley Foundation | $10,000 | $210,000 | $5,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Brosovich Family Foundation | $2,500 | $175,000 | $500 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| GE McDonald Foundation | $3,415 | $171,946 | $50 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Gertrude Kamps Memorial Foundation | $5,000 | $150,736 | $350 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt | $5,000 | $143,000 | $1,000 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Clark Scholarship Fund | $5,000 | $100,000 | One amount | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Nance Family Foundation Inc | $47,500 | $95,000 | $10,000 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Rudy Suden Scholarship Trust Fund | $6,174 | $93,996 | $3,538 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Stepping Forward Foundation | $23,500 | $89,400 | $2,500 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Leta Tanner Charitable Remainder Trust | $7,500 | $65,000 | $5,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Walter & Frances Green Charitable Trust | $1,000 | $60,700 | $250 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Ray Lanyon Fund | $5,000 | $58,000 | $1,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| James E Wigstone Scholarship Fund | $4,714 | $48,771 | $500 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| The Aj Blain Foundation | $4,525 | $43,125 | $1,000 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Ec & Edith Gwillim Memorial Fund | $10,000 | $40,800 | $800 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Joan and Wesley Buffington Trust | $4,131 | $40,432 | $1,400 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Ruth Margaret Green Scholarship Fund - Closin | $19,024 | $38,048 | $1,000 | FY2024 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
| Yvonne Mansfield Animal Welfare Fund | $3,000 | $33,793 | $595 | FY2025 | Locked: fit score and contactsLocked |
- Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
- “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.