Country music singer-songwriter Tyler Childers gave $500,000 from the proceeds of his 2024 Whitefish benefit concert to Blackfeet nonprofits, with the latest round of grant money distributed this summer.

Childers donated $250,000 to 11 Blackfeet nonprofits last winter and $250,000 to 16 nonprofits during this round of grants, according to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, which manages Childers’ Hickman Holler Appalachian Relief Fund.

FAST Blackfeet, Blackfeet Eco Knowledge, Ohkomi Forensics (which works on cases related to missing and murdered Indigenous people), Cuts Wood School (specializing in Blackfeet language preservation), Sukapi Lodge mental health center, Two Powers Land Collective, Browning Public School District No. 9, Blackfeet Museum Art Classes, Rodeo Club and

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