Driggers Foundation

The High Stakes Foundation

Missoula, MT

The High Stakes Foundation supports systems-change work that advances a sustainable, equitable, and resilient Montana, including civic engagement, climate, conservation, economic development, leadership, local food, and social justice. Its typical grants are $10,000–$30,000, and it primarily funds organizations in Montana. It accepts unsolicited requests through an LOI followed by a full proposal if invited.

Harder Foundation

Naples, FL

The Harder Foundation funds biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, including salmon habitat, Northern Rockies grizzly bears, public lands, rivers, and nearshore ecosystems, primarily in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. Its grants typically have a median of $32,500, with 2025 awards ranging from $7,500 to $122,500. It does not accept unsolicited requests and funds preselected organizations by invitation.

The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg

New York, NY

The foundation funds wildlife and wildland conservation, including habitat protection and community-based efforts that support people connected to selected landscapes in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, with particular emphasis on the northern Rocky Mountains, Montana, and neighboring areas. Its 2024 grants ranged from $1,000 to $1.1 million, with a median of $100,000; it works with preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Montana Trout Foundation

Matlacha, FL

The Kendeda Fund

Wilmington, DE

The Kendeda Fund supported transformative organizations and leaders working on issues including equity, girls’ rights, gun violence prevention, sustainability, and community resilience. Its 2023 grants had a median of $50,000 and ranged from $10 to $8 million, with funding concentrated in Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Minnesota, and New Hampshire; it did not accept unsolicited requests and completed grantmaking in 2023.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project

Billings, MT

Western Organization of Resource supports charitable and educational work in civic engagement, community organizing and training, membership development, and responsible energy development. Its 2022 grants averaged about $127,000, with awards ranging from roughly $150,000 to $332,000 among the listed recipients, and supported groups across the western and high-plains region as well as other states. The profile does not state whether it accepts unsolicited requests.