Charles M Bair Memorial Trust Us Bank Trust Dept
ActiveEducationFunds Individuals
BILLINGS, MT4066578139
About Charles M Bair Memorial Trust Us Bank Trust Dept
The Charles M. Bair Memorial Trust directs its giving exclusively to regional healthcare institutions in Montana, providing large, targeted grants to sustain hospital operations and capital needs. Grants are focused on supporting local clinical infrastructure and ensuring continued access to health services in the Billings area and surrounding rural communities.
Focus Areas
Hospital capital and operating support in Billings, MTSustaining rural regional healthcare systemsPass-through funding to healthcare facilities for facility needs
Who They Fund
regional healthcare facilitieshealthcare providers/staff (indirectly via facility support)school students / scholarship recipientsschools / educational institutions
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: very few (two) large grants in the dataset, focused on local healthcare providers rather than broad or diversified giving; appears to fund established regional health systems with one-time or episodic major gifts.
About Charles M Bair Memorial Trust Us Bank Trust Dept
Charles M Bair Memorial Trust US Bank Trust Dept directs large, repeated grants into Montana healthcare and school scholarship support, with one of the clearest patterns appearing in 2025: back-to-back awards to Billings Clinic Foundation for pass-through healthcare facility support. The trust’s giving also includes sustained support for regional providers such as Wheatland Memorial Healthcare in Harlowton and Mountainview Medical Center Inc in White Sulphur Springs, alongside individual scholarship grants to students in Montana communities. That mix shows a funder that works through local institutions and named recipients rather than broad national programs. Its recent grants point to a focused local portfolio. Hospital and clinic funding appears in the largest awards, while scholarship grants run alongside those healthcare commitments, linking the trust’s giving to community stability in smaller Montana towns. Recent recipients include Brooke Thorp, Teagan Oliva, and Tyson Hanson, each identified as scholarship grantees in Montana. The trust’s approach is highly regional, and its grant record is concentrated in the state where its recipients are located.
What Charles M Bair Memorial Trust Us Bank Trust Dept Funds
Healthcare facility support is the trust’s clearest area of activity. In 2025, it gave $230,000 each to Wheatland Memorial Healthcare and to Mountainview Medical Center Inc for sustaining regional healthcare, and it also made two $575,000 grants to Billings Clinic Foundation for pass-through to a healthcare facility. A second track is education funding through school scholarships. Recent awards include $61,749 to Brooke Thorp, $45,823 to Teagan Oliva, and $34,014 to Tyson Hanson, all listed as school scholarship grants. The pattern extends to other Montana students such as Karli Lane, Samantha Fenley, Mesa Butler, Shane Ogle, Camyrn Larson, Cadie Larson, and Laura Power. The trust also made general expense or capital expenditure grants to First Church of Christ Scientist Mother Church in Boston and to First Church of Christ Scientist in Billings, showing some support outside the healthcare and scholarship pattern.
How Charles M Bair Memorial Trust Us Bank Trust Dept Gives
Typical grants cluster in the low tens of thousands: the 25th percentile is $15,420, the median is $22,248, and the 75th percentile is $31,407. The recent record also shows a handful of much larger awards, including repeated six-figure grants. The trust funds individuals directly, alongside institutions, and its recent grants repeat across the same recipients and categories in 2025, suggesting ongoing relationships rather than one-off awards. It does not make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.8M
Total Assets
$10.1M
Total Revenue
$1.5M
Total Expenses
$1.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $15K and $31K, with a median of $22K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$22K
75th Percentile
$31K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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