Funding search · EIN 814703537 · Billings, MT

Paul Milan and Cynthia Long Foster

Name: Paul Milan and Cynthia Long Foster grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

53
grants reported: $368,000
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

backpacks kids

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Ymca Billings4 grants · $55,000
Great Falls Food Bank3 grants · $47,000
Family Promise3 grants · $32,000
Tumbleweed4 grants · $22,500
Great Falls Community Food Bank1 grant · $20,000
Family Promise of Gf1 grant · $15,000
Education Foundation Billings Public Schools2 grants · $15,000
Lopez Island Family Resource Center2 grants · $10,750
Ywca Billings1 grant · $10,000
Art House Billings2 grants · $10,000

Giving over time

$58,000

2022

$73,000

2023

$75,000

2024

$162,000

2025

Grant history

All 53 reported grants, largest first.

$20,000
Great Falls Community Food Bank · Great Falls, MT · 2025
General operations
$17,000
Great Falls Food Bank · Great Falls, MT · 2024
Backpacks for kids.
$15,000
Family Promise of Gf · Great Falls, MT · 2025
General operations
$15,000
Ymca Billings · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$15,000
Ymca Billings · Billings, MT · 2024
General operations.
$15,000
Great Falls Food Bank · Great Falls, MT · 2023
Backpacks for kids.
$15,000
Ymca Billings · Billings, MT · 2023
General operations.
$15,000
Great Falls Food Bank · Great Falls, MT · 2022
Backpacks for kids.
$12,000
Family Promise · Great Falls, MT · 2024
General operations.
$10,000
Boys and Girls Club of Cascade County · Great Falls, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
District 4 Hrdc - Havre Food Bank · Havre, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Msub Foundation · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Tumbleweed · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Ywca Billings · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Education Foundation Billings Public Schools · Billings, MT · 2024
General operations.
$10,000
Family Promise · Great Falls, MT · 2023
General operations.
$10,000
Family Promise · Great Falls, MT · 2022
General operations.
$10,000
Ymca Billings · Billings, MT · 2022
General operations.
$7,500
Ask in Earnest · Shepherd, MT · 2025
General operations
$7,500
Lopez Island Family Resource Center · Lopez Island, WA · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Art House · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Children'S Museum · Great Falls, MT · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Montana Bioscience Alliance · Bozeman, MT · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Montana Free Press · Helena, MT · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Montana Historical Society · Helena, MT · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Tumbleweed · Billings, MT · 2024
General operations.
$5,000
West Elementary Pta · Great Falls, MT · 2024
General operations.
$5,000
Art House Billings · Billings, MT · 2023
General operations.
$5,000
Clark County Foodbank · Vancouver, WA · 2023
General operations.
$5,000
Education Foundation Billings Public Schools · Billings, MT · 2023
General operations.
$5,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
General operations.
$5,000
Tumbleweed · Billings, MT · 2023
General operations.
$5,000
Art House Billings · Billings, MT · 2022
General operations.
$5,000
Clark County Foodbank · Vancouver, WA · 2022
General operations.
$5,000
Seattle Children'S Theater · Seattle, WA · 2022
General operations.
$4,000
Find Food Bank · Indio, CA · 2025
General operations
$3,500
Boys and Girls Club of Coachella Valley · Coachella, CA · 2025
General operations
$3,250
Find Food Bank · Indio, CA · 2024
General operations.
$3,250
Lopez Island Family Resource Center · Lopez Island, WA · 2024
General operations.
$2,500
Nations To Neighbors · Billings, MT · 2025
General operations
$2,500
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
General operations
$2,500
Billings Trailnet · Billings, MT · 2022
General operations.
$2,500
Tumbleweed · Billings, MT · 2022
General operations.
$2,000
Casa Great Falls · Great Falls, MT · 2025
General operations
$2,000
Casa - Can Childrens Advocate Network · Great Falls, MT · 2024
General operations.
$2,000
Holocaust Center for Humanity · Seattle, WA · 2023
General operations.
$2,000
Seattle Children'S Theater · Seattle, WA · 2023
General operations.
$2,000
West Elementary Pta · Great Falls, MT · 2023
General operations.
$2,000
West Elementary Pta · Great Falls, MT · 2022
General operations.
$1,000
Casa - Can Childrens Advocate Network · Great Falls, MT · 2023
General operations.
$1,000
Local Media Foundation · Lake City, MI · 2023
General operations.
$1,000
Casa - Can Childrens Advocate Network · Great Falls, MT · 2022
General operations.

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