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Blue Mountain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEP SEVEN INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| LYONS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TCThe Center For Medical Progress5× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +95%
- APAlternatives Pregnancy Center3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +109%
- LHLYONS HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- VCVALOR CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +181%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MMATTERSVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +85%
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.
Alternatives provides medical and educational services that empower men and women to make life affirming choices concerning pregnancy and sexual health.
Provide life-affirming care by sharing compassion, hope, and help to those facing pregnancy decisions.
Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.
Hope Medical of Washington is a faith-based, non-profit community medical clinic providing compassionate, evidence-based health care services to empower people to make informed decisions. We offer free, confidential services including free…
Staff & volunteers serve those in pregnancy situations. All services are free: pregnancy testing/confirmation, limited obstetrical ultrasound, options counseling, community referrals, pregnancy, parenting & life skills classes, baby items,…
Choosing Life over Abortion
Desert Rose Women's Resource Center is a Christian organization whose primary mission is to offer relevant, life affirming medical information to women and men considering abortion.
The organization offers medical services and resources to women who are or might be pregnant at no cost.
Crisis Pregnancy Center of Montrose, Inc. is a Christ-centered ministry which promotes life-affirming options by providing practical assistance, free education and material services to all those making decisions about their relationships,…
The Organization was incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado in 1999 for the purpose of providing support and alternative services for women and men who experience an unplanned pregnancy. As a faith based organization, the…
Develop and administer programs designed to assist women in confronting and dealing with the spiritual, physical, emotional, economic and social problems associated with pregnancy.
The Carolina Pregnancy Center is a nonprofit ministry serving women, and their families, who are seeking help in making decisions about their pregnancy and well-being. Services include: Counseling, continuing emotional support, referrals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valor Clinic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Share the Spirit Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 Step Seven Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center For Medical Progress ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LYONS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MATTERSVILLE ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Motorcycle Relief Project ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Blue Mountain Foundation 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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