Grants
Work the board has funded.
Edna Allen established the foundation in Miles City in 1992, and the board made its first grant in February 1993. This archive holds the detailed record of every award from Fall 2015 on, and it grows each spring and fall.
- Miles City, Montana
- Est. 1992
- Grants since Fall 2015
- 219
- Educational 85Charitable 79Literary & Arts 55
- Organizations funded
- 62
- Review cycles
- 22
2026
4 grants
Hide 2026 grants
Spring 2026
4 grants
- Range Riders Museum — security upgrade and gun building carpetFunds two projects: phase two of a security system upgrade and new carpet in the gun building.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$4,000
- Miles City Convent Keepers — emergency plumbing repairsPays for emergency repairs to leaking pipes serving the boiler system, with any unused funds supporting other urgent maintenance at the convent.Miles City Convent Keepers/ Academy · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$10,500
- WaterWorks Art Museum — facility improvementsSupports ongoing improvements to the WaterWorks Art Museum building that keep it safe and secure for visitors and staff.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$8,000
- Evelyn Cameron Heritage — upgraded photo displaysUpgrades the display of Evelyn Cameron's historic photographs of early Montana plains life with larger, better displays.Evelyn Cameron Heritage Inc. · TerryLiterary & Arts$2,500
2025
7 grants
Show 7 grants · Fall 2025, Spring 2025
Fall 2025
3 grants
- Miles City Convent Keepers — front door and storm windowsRestores and refinishes the front wood entry door and replaces storm windows.Miles City Convent Keepers/ Academy · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$12,500
- Range Riders Museum — lighting, safety, security and displaysUpdates the museum's lighting, life and safety systems, security and displays.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$5,000
- WaterWorks Art Museum — new pottery kilnPurchases, builds and installs a new pottery kiln.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$30,000
Spring 2025
4 grants
- Range Riders Museum — country schoolhouse roofReplaces the roof on the museum's country schoolhouse.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$6,100
- WaterWorks Art Museum — art education and Van-Go outreachExpands art education programs, including the Van-Go outreach program.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$8,000
- WaterWorks Art Museum — Clear Water Well lightingInstalls permanent lighting for the museum's Clear Water Well project.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$6,000
- Carter County Museum — expansion campaignHelps the museum's campaign for expansion.Carter County MuseumLiterary & Arts$5,000
2024
8 grants
Show 8 grants · Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Fall 2024
4 grants
- Miles City Convent Keepers — front columns and footingsHelps replace the building's front columns and footings, serving as matching funds for a Montana historic preservation grant request.Miles City Convent Keepers/ Academy · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$15,000
- WaterWorks Art Museum — replacement computersReplaces four computers with compatible ones so they are interconnected.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$5,000
- Keep Miles City Beautiful — downtown public art muralSupports installation of a public art mural in downtown Miles City featuring local landmarks.Keep Miles City Beautiful (Pine Hills Park) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$13,000
- Range Riders Museum — commercial-grade carpetReplaces worn carpet with updated commercial-grade carpet.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$4,500
Spring 2024
4 grants
- Miles City Convent Keepers — south side paintingPays for preparation and painting of the windows, soffits and gable on the south side of the building.Miles City Convent Keepers/ Academy · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$5,000
- Range Riders Museum — metal roof for main log entrance buildingReplaces the roof on the museum's main log entrance building with a metal roof.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$12,500
- WaterWorks Art Museum — youth arts education programsSupports the museum's ongoing youth programs focused on arts education.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$6,000
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — festival expensesHelps with the expenses of putting on the festival, including rent and insurance.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$2,000
2023
3 grants
Show 3 grants · Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Fall 2023
2 grants
- Miles City Convent Keepers — exterior paintingScrapes, primes and repaints the soffits, windows, back door and basement entry of the historic convent building.Miles City Convent Keepers/ Academy · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$17,000
- WaterWorks Art Museum — wing concrete repair and roofingFunds concrete repair and new roofing to save a wing of the museum building.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$15,000
2022
5 grants
Show 5 grants · Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Fall 2022
2 grants
- Range Riders Museum — display case glassReplaces the glass in several of the Range Riders Museum's display cases.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$2,600
- Waterworks Art Museum — pottery roomCompletes the concrete floor repair in the Waterworks Art Museum's pottery room and installs pottery wheels.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$6,000
Spring 2022
3 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — festival costsHelps defray the cost of putting on the Miles City Bluegrass Festival.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Range Riders Museum — Pioneer Memorial Hall roof repairFunds roof repair over the Pioneer Memorial Hall at the Range Riders Museum.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$15,000
- WaterWorks Art Museum — clay studio upgradeUpgrades the clay studio with new lighting and cement floor repair, and includes a new computer.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$10,000
2021
5 grants
Show 5 grants · Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Fall 2021
3 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — festival costsHelps defray the costs of the Miles City Bluegrass Festival.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Range Riders Museum — Main Building maintenance and repairMaintenance and repair of the Main Building, including concrete work to improve drainage, sandblasting, staining, caulking and chinking.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$13,100
- WaterWorks Art Museum — kilns, pottery wheels and gallery lightingHelps repair and replace old kilns, purchase pottery wheels, and add or upgrade lighting in the gallery.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$12,000
Spring 2021
2 grants
- WaterWorks Art Museum — VanGo outreach programSupports the museum's VanGo outreach program, which brings art education to 2,000 students across a 30,000 square mile area.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$15,000
- Garfield County Museum — military uniform mannequinsPurchases display mannequins for military uniforms in the museum's standing exhibits.Heritage And Cultural Foundation Of Garfield County (Garfield County Museum) · JordanLiterary & Arts$3,000
2020
5 grants
Show 5 grants · Fall 2020, Spring 2020
Fall 2020
2 grants
- Range Riders Museum — Clarks Gun Building roofPays for a new roof on the Clarks Gun Building at the Range Riders Museum.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$8,520
- Range Riders Museum — parking lot resurfacingPays for resurfacing the Range Riders Museum parking lot.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$19,800
Spring 2020
3 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — festival costsHelps defray the cost of putting on the Miles City Bluegrass Festival.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- WaterWorks Art Museum — VanGo outreach educationSupports the museum's VanGo outreach education program, which reaches more than 2,000 children.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$15,000
- Range Riders Museum — Officers Quarters west side restorationSupports continued repair and restoration of the west side of the Officers Quarters at the Range Riders Museum.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$13,200
2019
7 grants
Show 7 grants · Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Fall 2019
3 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — 22nd annual festivalSupport for the 22nd consecutive year of the Bluegrass Festival in Miles City.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Keep Miles City Beautiful — Riverside Park sculpture and gardenCompletes the Riverside Park horse sculpture and prairie garden, with funds also for signs and landscaping.Keep Miles City Beautiful (Pine Hills Park) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$12,000
- Range Riders Museum — Fort Keogh Officers Quarters repairsRepairs to the existing displayed rooms in the Fort Keogh Officers Quarters at the Range Riders Museum.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$6,800
Spring 2019
4 grants
- Miles City Caledonian Society — drums and kiltsTwo tenor drums and five McRae tartan kilts.Miles City Caledonian Society Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,100
- Waterworks Art Museum — VanGo art educationSupports the museum's art education programs, in particular VanGo, which takes art appreciation classes to rural and small-town schools.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$12,000
- Miles City Community Orchestra — concert program (2019)Helps underwrite the concert program of the Miles City Community Orchestra.Miles City Community Orchestra Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$3,000
- Evelyn Cameron Heritage — Cultural Center floor restorationFunds the final restoration of the main floor of the Evelyn Cameron Cultural Center.Evelyn Cameron Heritage Inc. · TerryLiterary & Arts$2,500
2018
3 grants
Show 3 grants · Fall 2018, Spring 2018
Spring 2018
2 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — advertising and expensesFunds advertising, promotion and expenses for the annual musical event.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Waterworks Art Museum — outreach education program (2018)Supports the museum's Outreach Education Program.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$8,000
2017
6 grants
Show 6 grants · Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Fall 2017
2 grants
- Range Riders Museum — display glass and window repairsInstalls glass in displays to protect artifacts and repairs and repaints several windows in the Officers' Quarters and other buildings.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$8,400
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — annual festivalFinancial support for the annual Bluegrass musical event.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
Spring 2017
4 grants
- Billings Symphony Society — school concerts and band visitsBrings Billings Symphony musicians to work with the Miles City band and perform school concerts.Billings Symphony Society · BillingsLiterary & Arts$2,500
- Miles City Community Orchestra — concert programHelps underwrite the concert program of the Miles City Community Orchestra.Miles City Community Orchestra Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Waterworks Art Museum — roofing projectSupport for the museum's roofing project.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$5,000
- Waterworks Art Museum — outreach education programSupport for the museum's Outreach Education Program.Custer County Art & Heritage Center (Waterworks Art Museum) · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$7,000
2016
2 grants
Show 2 grants · Spring 2016
Spring 2016
2 grants
- Miles City Bluegrass Festival — 2016 festivalAnnual support for the September 2016 Miles City Bluegrass Festival.Miles City Blue Grass Festival Inc. · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$1,500
- Range Riders Museum — bronze nurse photo labelsBronze labels for the photographs of nurses in the museum's medical display.Range Riders Inc · Miles CityLiterary & Arts$2,000