Idaho and Montana Grant Program

The Steele-Reese Foundation
The Foundation will only consider requests that benefit rural communities in Idaho, Montana, and in Native nations with whom they share this geography. They will not consider requests for work benefiting urban or suburban areas, or those more rural areas immediately adjacent, or in close proximity, to an urbanized area. In Idaho, urban areas include the Boise-Nampa Metropolitan Statistical Area, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Coeur d’Alene, Twin Falls, Lewiston, Post Falls, Rexburg, Moscow, and their suburbs. In Montana, urban areas include Billings, Missoula, Great Falls, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Kalispell, and their suburbs.
They give priority to organizations based in rural communities who are working in rural areas, including Native-led organizations. They will also consider inquiries from organizations based in urban areas for proposed work in a rural community with whom they can demonstrate an existing high level of engagement.
Join one of their half-hour open house information sessions via Zoom on December 3, 12, and 18, 2024 to answer your questions about the LOI and the grant cycle. Contact Linda Tracy, Western Director, to discuss your proposal before submitting a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) for the Foundation’s consideration.
The LOI process will open on January 13, 2025 and will close once they have received 100 LOIs, which typically takes one to three weeks.