· Private foundation
Bayne Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Bayne Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Bayne Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $226k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2022
- Under $10k27 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $29,912 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $29,912 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $20,475 |
| NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL | $19,110 |
| HILLIARD FOOD PANTRY | $10,060 |
| SISTERS IN SHELTER | $10,000 |
| FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $9,555 |
| WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS | $9,555 |
| ABBIE SHELTER | $9,256 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $5,160 |
| FLATHEAD FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SPARROWS NEST OF NW MONTANA | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +70%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE7× · 2019–2025 · $166k · revenue +57%
- SOSEEDS OF CARING4× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +380%
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -59%
- SNSPARROWS NESTone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TPTURNING POINTone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The montana natural history center promotes appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of nature and the environment through education.
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
The make-a-wish foundation of montana creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Owl Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 54 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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF CARING ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CODE GIRLS UNITED ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMAZING PLACE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE RIDE 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Broussard Charitable Foundation Tr · Oro y Plata Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · The Applied Materials Foundation · Cobb Foundation
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 Bayne Foundation Inc 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.