· Private foundation
Browning Kimball Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $465k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATI | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BEAVER CREEK PARK INC | $78,000 |
| PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL K RANCH | $46,900 |
| WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE | $35,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $31,579 |
| AWARE | $30,000 |
| BEAR PAW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $30,000 |
| RURAL MONTANA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| SWEET MEMORIAL NURSING HOME | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE HI-LINE | $21,000 |
| MONTANA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLI | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% 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.
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.
74 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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
- TCTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +21%
- SKSPECIAL K RANCH8× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +64%
- SDST DOMINIC SAVIO ACADEMY INC DBA STORY AUTISM CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- HCHILL COUNTY WEED DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $40k
- DODEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MSMONTANA SCHOOL DEAF & BLIND FDone grant, 2018 · $24k
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.
Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.
The montana preservation alliance (mpa) saves and protects montana's historic places, traditional landscapes, and cultural heritage. we are the only statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing montanans with the resources…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Stockgrowers Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Montana Meth Project. 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.
76 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. 76 of the 134 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 TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC SAVIO ACADEMY INC DBA STORY AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON DAVID MCNEEL MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR PAW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS CLINIC LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Access Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BEAVER CREEK PARK INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS' EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds PEACE PLACE ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Treacy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Montana Healthcare Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Sample 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 Browning Kimball 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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