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Montana · Public charity

Bird of Pray Foundation

To bring hope through humanitarian aid to those in need in our community and around the world

$97k
Granted FY2020
2
Itemized grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$12k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,125
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,125
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Bird of Pray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20
InternationalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20202$12k0%
FY20196$61k100%
FY20182$16kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

International$35kHuman Services$31kEducation$17kHealth$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Directconnect Humanitarian Aid Inc$26,00026%
Tracys Closet$22,8401n/a
The Sacred Portion Childrens Outreach Inc$9,30022%
Catholic Social Services of Montana$7,70011%
Search and Assist$7,2011n/a
Rocky Mountain Medical Foundation$6,0111n/a
Destinys Promise Homes for Children Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Bird of Pray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bird of Pray Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bird of Pray Foundation

How much does Bird of Pray Foundation give?
Bird of Pray Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $11,725, out of $97,134 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Bird of Pray Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are International (40%), Human Services (35%), Education (19%).
Who are Bird of Pray Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Directconnect Humanitarian Aid Inc ($26k), Tracys Closet ($23k), The Sacred Portion Childrens Outreach Inc ($9k).
Does Bird of Pray Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bird of Pray Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bird of Pray Foundation based?
Bird of Pray Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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