Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch Foundation

EIN# 81-0419905

Help Kids Heal & Thrive

We are the financial champion behind life-changing care for kids and a trusted partner for tax-wise giving.

We don’t just raise funds; we help donors design, set up, and manage charitable gifts and trusts, often serving as trustee, so your impact is maximized and your giving is simple.

Youth across the country are facing serious mental health challenges. Without intervention, these kids are headed towards incarceration, homelessness, substance use, or worse.

Yellowstone Foundation supports organizations like Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch, where kids find safety, structure, and hope.

In Montana’s wide‑open spaces with horses, hands‑on work, caring staff, and a spiritual life program, youth receive therapeutic, whole‑person care that helps them stabilize, heal, and rebuild confidence.

Beyond the Ranch: your gift powers a full continuum of care statewide

Kids Served Daily

Community-Based Services

In-home and in-school supports that keep youth with their families and succeeding in class.

students enrolled

Yellowstone Academy

A specialized school on the ranch campus tailored to learners with unique needs.

Kids in care today

Residential Treatment

Intensive psychiatric residential treatment for youth in crisis who need the highest level of support.

Kids in small homes

Therapeutic Group Homes

Structured, family-like settings that help kids step down from higher levels of care.

Gift Planning

Turn Your generosity
into strategy

We make charitable giving clear and turnkey. Our team designs, sets up, and administers gifts in-house, often serving as trustee, so you can create income, reduce taxes, and build a lasting legacy. We work with your advisors, support multiple charities, and bring decades of trusted stewardship. Start with a no-obligation conversation.

Stories of Transformation

because Giving Changes lives

Margaret & Anna

Honoring a Legacy of Care and Generosity At Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation, we treasure stories that remind us how deep compassion and purposeful

December 14, 2025

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Foundation services

Give Strategically, Multiply Your Impact

From charitable gift annuities to trusts, estates, IRA gifts, and Montana’s Endowment Tax Credit, we design and manage gifts that can provide income and reduce taxes while helping kids.

What Your Giving Makes possible

Safety & Security Upgrades

New Locker Rooms

Equine Assisted Therapy Expansion

Business/Marketing Podcast Class

Fire Suppression System

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Margaret’s generosity and vision continue to inspire. At 80, she established a Charitable Remainder Trust to provide her daughter, Anna, with lifelong income while supporting the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation. Her commitment to giving didn’t stop there. She later created an additional trust, ensuring her home would one day benefit the Foundation after her passing. Anna, a compassionate nurse and caregiver, carries that same giving spirit forward. In 2014, she named YBGR Foundation in the beneficiary deed of her home. When not caring for others, Anna expresses her creativity by sewing colorful zipper coin purses, each one stitched with the same care and purpose that defines her life. Their family’s legacy continues to uplift Montana youth, one thoughtful act at a time.

For Tom and Carol, giving back has always gone hand in hand with living life to the fullest. Proud parents and grandparents, they’ve built a life centered on family, hard work, and community, while never losing sight of adventure. From carving through Montana’s snowy slopes to building a successful small business, Tom and Carol have lived with purpose and passion. After retirement, they turned their attention to philanthropy. In 2006, they made a meaningful gift to the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation, donating a portion of a property to establish a Charitable Remainder Trust. The trust provided them with reliable income during retirement while ensuring future support for youth served through YBGR programs. Their legacy reminds us that generosity, like adventure, has no age limit.

George and Marcey built a life of adventure, service, and heart. Lifelong educators, they shared a passion for learning and exploration, spending summers on RV trips across the country and winters under the Arizona sun. After George’s passing, Marcey continued to live their shared values with quiet strength. Wise, creative, and deeply generous, she invested her time and resources in causes that would uplift others for generations. Her deep belief in the mission of Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation led her to establish a Charitable Remainder Trust and multiple charitable gift annuities, each one a reflection of her faith in the lasting impact of care, compassion, and hope. Her legacy, shared with George, lives on through the many lives their generosity continues to touch.

Help Kids Heal & Thrive