Asbjornson Foundation

• Asbjornson Foundation, based in Tulsa, OK, gives priority to Montana, and the filing says it requires at least 80% of its annual qualified charitable distributions to benefit Montana residents, so a Montana-based or Montana-serving organisation fits its stated focus.
• Its recorded grants have gone to foundations, including a university foundation, and to purposes such as an airport improvement project and funds benefiting a town, so community and university work is what the filing shows.
• Half of its six grants to organisations were $600,000 or less, and its typical grants fall between $250,000 and $6,050,000, so size a request to what your organisation needs rather than to the top of that band.
• Any form may be used, the filing gives no deadlines and no submission channel, and none of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded the year before, so a first written approach is a sensible start.
• Organisations not qualified as tax-exempt under I.R.C. Section 501(c)(3) should not apply, since the foundation says it makes grants only to such organisations.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Central Montana Foundation · Town of Winifred Airport improvement project fund
  $6,000,4092024 tax year
• Central Montana Foundation · Donation to funds for the benefit of the Town of Winifred
  $3,000,2372024 tax year
• Central Montana Foundation · Donation for benefit of multiple charitable funds maintained by Central Montana Foundation
  $2,700,0492024 tax year
• Central Montana Foundation · General fund
  $250,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.