The Nance Family Foundation concentrates its giving locally in Billings, MT, directing all recorded support to the Billings Clinic Foundations. Their grants appear aimed at philanthropic support for a regional health system, indicating a focus on sustaining local healthcare infrastructure and services. The foundation acts as a private, place-based supporter of medical philanthropy rather than a diversified grantmaker.
Highly concentrated: all recorded funding is to a single local grantee (Billings Clinic Foundations) across multiple grants, indicating focused, repeat support rather than broad or diversified giving.
Notable grantees: Billings Clinic Foundations
A three-year sequence of six-figure support for Billings Clinic Foundations defines Nance Family Foundation Inc. In 2025, the foundation gave $85,000 for philanthropic purposes, following $81,000 in 2024 and $80,000 in 2023 to the same recipient. That pattern shows a steady relationship with a local health-system foundation rather than broad, dispersed grantmaking. The foundation’s recorded giving is entirely concentrated in Montana, with all grants going to recipients in the state. Alongside its largest recurring support, the foundation has also made smaller local grants to other Montana nonprofits. In 2023, it gave $10,000 to Tumbleweed Runaway Program, and in 2025 it gave $10,000 to Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation. Those gifts place the foundation within a narrow local portfolio centered on community-serving organizations in and around Billings and other Montana cities. Its structure and pattern point to a private foundation that directs most of its resources through a few targeted relationships.
The foundation’s clearest focus is health-related philanthropy through Billings Clinic Foundations. The recent grants show three consecutive awards for philanthropic purposes: $80,000 in 2023, $81,000 in 2024, and $85,000 in 2025. That repeated support suggests ongoing backing for a regional hospital system rather than one-off project funding. Beyond healthcare, the foundation has made smaller grants to community organizations. It gave $10,000 to Tumbleweed Runaway Program in 2023 and $10,000 to Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation in 2025, both for philanthropic purposes. Those awards indicate that the foundation’s giving extends to youth or family-support services and veteran-oriented or outdoors-based programming, while remaining tightly local. Across the record provided, the grantmaking stays in Montana and stays focused on a small number of named recipients.
Typical grants cluster around two levels: a median of $80,000 and a p75 of $81,000, with a p25 of $10,000. That spread reflects a small set of large recurring awards plus occasional smaller gifts. The foundation is a private foundation, does not fund individuals, and does not make program-related investments. The recent record shows repeat support over multiple years to the same health-system foundation, paired with smaller one-time awards to other Montana nonprofits. No application process is stated in the data.
$95K
$1.8M
$471K
$122K
Most grants fall between $10K and $81K, with a median of $80K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$80K
75th Percentile
$81K
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Grantmaking is entirely local and entirely in Montana: 100% of recorded grants go to recipients in the foundation’s headquarters state. Billings is the main recipient city in the recent grants, including the health-system foundation and Tumbleweed Runaway Program. Bozeman also appears in the recent record through Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation. No non-U.S. recipient countries appear in the data; all five recent grants are to U.S. organizations.
The record centers on support for Billings Clinic Foundations, with three consecutive grants for philanthropic purposes: $80,000 in 2023, $81,000 in 2024, and $85,000 in 2025. The foundation also made smaller Montana grants to Tumbleweed Runaway Program and Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation.
The reported grant-size distribution has a p25 of $10,000, a median of $80,000, and a p75 of $81,000. That suggests most of the giving falls into a small number of large awards, with a lower tier of $10,000 grants.
All recorded grants go to recipients in Montana, and the geographic scope of giving is local. Recent recipient cities include Billings and Bozeman, and the top state by grant count is MT with 100% of grants given to recipients in the HQ state.
No. The foundation is listed as not funding individuals, and the recent grants all go to organizations rather than people.
Yes. Billings Clinic Foundations received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025, including three consecutive awards at $80,000, $81,000, and $85,000. The other named recipients appear as smaller grants in single years.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONS | BILLINGS, MT | $85,000 | 2025 | PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES |
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | BOZEMAN, MT | $10,000 | 2025 | PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES |
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONS | BILLINGS, MT | $81,000 | 2024 | PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES |
| BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONS | BILLINGS, MT | $80,000 | 2023 | PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES |
| TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM | BILLINGS, MT | $10,000 | 2023 | PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES |
BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONS
$85,000PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSES