Lippard-Clawiter Foundation
Great Falls, MT · EIN 81-0394026. Reported 174 grants totalling $2,021,006 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lippard-Clawiter Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $104,004. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Benton Community Improvement Assoc | Fort Benton, MT | $346,842 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geraldine Swimming Pool Association | Geraldine, MT | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Signal Point Golf Club | Fort Benton, MT | $99,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Golden Age Center | Fort Benton, MT | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Loma Rural Volunteer Fire Department | Loma, MT | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Town of Big Sandy | Big Sandy, MT | $73,791 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of Fort Benton | Fort Benton, MT | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Geraldine Historical Committee | Geraldine, MT | $71,657 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| River & Plains Society | Fort Benton, MT | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geraldine Community Ambulance | Geraldine, MT | $60,276 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geraldine Action Association | Geraldine, MT | $57,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fort Benton Memorial Ambulance | Fort Benton, MT | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Highwood Rural Fire Department | Highwood, MT | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Highwood Commercial Club | Highwood, MT | $54,378 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Volunteer Fire Department | Big Sandy, MT | $52,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Rotary Club | Big Sandy, MT | $50,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Medical Center | Big Sandy, MT | $48,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County 4-H Council | Loma, MT | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Highwood Senior Citizens Center | Highwood, MT | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County Library Foundation | Fort Benton, MT | $33,833 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Historical Society | Big Sandy, MT | $33,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gfwc Fort Benton's Woman's Club Inc | Fort Benton, MT | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sunrise Bluff Estates | Fort Benton, MT | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Volunteer Ambulance | Big Sandy, MT | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Florence Dedman Animal Shelter & Found | Fort Benton, MT | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Cultural Fund | Big Sandy, MT | $21,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Elim Rural Volunteer Fire Co | Fort Benton, MT | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Arts & Athletics | Big Sandy, MT | $20,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Barracuda Swim Team | Big Sandy, MT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County Fair Improvement Found | Fort Benton, MT | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County Search & Rescue | Fort Benton, MT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geraldine Senior Citizens | Geraldine, MT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County Fair Board | Fort Benton, MT | $19,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Little Pioneers Wrestling | Big Sandy, MT | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Shonkin Community Club | Shonkin, MT | $17,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Senior Citizens Center | Big Sandy, MT | $16,407 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geraldine Youth Center | Geraldine, MT | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chouteau County Health Care Foundation | Fort Benton, MT | $14,708 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Outriders Saddle Club | Geraldine, MT | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Education Foundation LLC | Big Sandy, MT | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Saddle Club | Big Sandy, MT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Knees Community Club | Brady, MT | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Missouri River Medical Center | Fort Benton, MT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fort Benton Gators Inc | Fort Benton, MT | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Carter Volunteer Fire Department | Carter, MT | $6,425 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sandy Activities Inc | Big Sandy, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Benton Community Scale | Fort Benton, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Benton Little Guy Wrestling Club | Fort Benton, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geraldine Youth Sports | Geraldine, MT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hometown Helping Hands | Big Sandy, MT | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Highwood Baseball | Highwood, MT | $3,589 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Strongher Together | Loma, MT | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Benton Junior Bowlers | Fort Benton, MT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Central Mt Compassionate Friends | Fort Benton, MT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geraldine Vets Club | Geraldine, MT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
45 of 55 (82%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 86%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 78 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 43 | $458,913 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 41 | $551,575 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 46 | $512,796 | $7,750 |
| 2024 | 44 | $497,722 | $6,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,750. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Montana.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lippard-Clawiter Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 21 10TH St S, Great Falls, MT, 59401. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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