2025 Accomplishments

For North Yellowstone Education Foundation

 

Teacher Housing

● In 2025, we remodeled a studio apartment into a one-bedroom apartment and added a washer and dryer. We received donations from Park County Community Foundation and Livingston Flooring to make this project happen.
● We developed the school property to accommodate new teacher housing.
● We added three two-bedroom, two-bath units, with lofts on the school property.
● We re-roofed our three-unit teacher house.
● Six Gardiner School employees continue to live in our subsidized housing.

 

Connect! Grants

● 2024-2025 school year: 19 Connect! Grant Applications received.
● For the 2024-2025 school year, we funded nineteen applications totaling $128,800.40.
● Larger projects included new lights and sound for the cafetorium, and a new fence around the football field.

 

Mental Health

● We received a Connect! Grant application for Rural Resilience for $10,000 to support a behavioralist.
● We sponsored Brewfest and raised $8,281 for our 2025-2026 Mental Health grant to Rural Resilience.

 

Year-End Donation Drive Cafetorium Project - Stage Lighting and Sound System

● In October, NYEF was made aware that the bleachers could no longer be repaired and were unstable in many areas.
● We assisted the school with two Gardiner Resort Area District grants. One for the bleacher project and one for the track project.
● In the end, the school received funds from GRAD to replace the bleachers.
● Our year-end campaign raised an additional $9,297 to support the Track renovations scheduled for 2027.
● The bleacher project will take place in the summer of 2026, and we aim to raise enough money for the track project to take place in the summer of 2027.

 

 Funding

● NYEF received grant awards from the Park County Community Foundation, Greater Gallatin United Way, George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Foundation, Gardiner Resort Area District, Northwestern Energy, Whole Kids, Kars4Kids, plus private foundations and amazing local donors.