· Public charity
Area II Agency on Aging
To assist all older adults and individuals with disabilities to maintain freedom, independence, and free exercise of individual initiative necessary for the planning and management of their own lives through the coordination of actual delivery of needed services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k18 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $422k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE | $883,481 |
| FERGUS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN | $317,705 |
| BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES SHH | $250,858 |
| BIG HORN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AG | $110,702 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $79,410 |
| MUSSELSHELL COUNTY COUNCIL ON | $78,931 |
| WHEATLAND COUNTY SENIOR CITIZ | $76,510 |
| CARBON STILLWATER COMMUNITY A | $76,143 |
| SOUTH PARK SENIOR CENTER | $44,896 |
| COLUMBUS SENIOR CITIZENS | $41,429 |
| STILLWATER SENIOR CITIZENS | $41,167 |
| RED LODGE SENIOR CITIZENS | $34,382 |
| PARK CITY SENIOR CITIZENS | $30,361 |
| BROADVIEW SENIOR CITIZENS | $30,159 |
| BELFRY SENIOR CITIZENS | $28,920 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ARADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +64% · 29% of their budget
- FCFERGUS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +156% · 35% of their budget
- BSBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SSHHone grant, 2024 · $220k
- RRAPELJEone grant, 2024 · $44k
- SPSOUTH PARK SENIOR CITIZENone grant, 2022 · $34k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Senior Center facility for the local Meals on Wheels production.
Provides meals and services to senior citizens of the comunity and surrounding towns
Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes
Adults day care
To offer a nutrition program for older persons.
Providing meals for aged
The Thayne Senior Center provides meals, activities and transportation services to keep seniors independent, and in their own homes. We provide meals at our center M-F, as well as deliver meals to homebound seniors.
We help between 10 and 20 Senior Citizens on a weekly basis.
Enhancing quality of life for seniors through healthy diet, activities
Service to senior citizens of crosby county
Provide meals for seniors meals on wheel
This organization provides 2 meals per week to senior citizens on-site as well as delivering to home-bound seniors. We also provide a facility in which they can gather for fellowship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Age Society Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is Lake Basin Seniors Incorporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FERGUS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSSELSHELL COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATLAND COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARBON STILLWATER COMMUNITY & SENIOR PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN AGE SOCIETY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds South Park Senior Citizens Center ↗
- Who funds LAKE BASIN SENIORS INCORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RAPELJE SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Area II Agency on Aging funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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