· Private foundation
Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of BOE BROTHERS FOUNDATION D A DAVIDSON TRUST CO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $169k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | $64,998 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $51,998 |
| CONCORDIA COLLEGE | $51,998 |
| TETON COUNTY 4H-FFA AG | $23,998 |
| MSU FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHOTEAU HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| POWER HIGH SCHOOL | $4,800 |
| GREENFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 75 | $4,000 |
| OLD TRAIL MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| TIMESCALE ADVENTURES | $3,000 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS | $3,000 |
| BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TETON COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER | $3,000 |
| BRIGHT EYES ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| DUTTONBRADY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
41 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CCCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $478k · revenue +1%
- MSMontana State University Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +315%
- BTBENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHOTEAU COMMUNITY DOG PARKone grant, 2022 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE TETON CHOTEAU PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum
Search & rescue
To perpetuate the common sense use and enjoyment of horses in America's back country, roadless backcountry and wilderness areas. To work to ensure that public lands remain open to recreational stock use. To assist the various government…
To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.
Promote research and actions to save wildlife.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pets Are Worth Saving Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 64 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 CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE LODGE ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA DINOSAUR CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLD TRAIL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT WEED ROUNDTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT EYES ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STATE OLD-TIME FIDDLERS ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CIVIC AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOTEAU COMMUNITY ART STUDIO ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TETON COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Browning Kimball Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Benefis Health System Inc · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Treacy Foundation · Soka 'Piiwa Foundation · Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc · James M & Frances M Wylder 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 Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co 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.