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Buchanan Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELIVERFUND | $5,000 |
| PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
| MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF HELENA | $3,000 |
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $2,000 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| POVERELLO CENTER | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| YWCA | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO UM | $1,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAKE BIO STATION | $1,000 |
| GREAT FALLS CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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
- DDeliverFund5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +7%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +75%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HIHOMEWORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +40%
- BFBENEFIS FOUNDATION - PEACE HOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $500
- FFFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $400 · revenue -58%
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.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
The Montana Family Foundation is a non-profit engaged in research and education of legislators, other government officials, and the public on issues regarding families, family health, and traditional family values.
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…
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
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.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
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To assist victims of housing discrimination in the state of montana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Bigfork Fire Department. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DeliverFund ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Partnerships For Change ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bigfork Fire Department ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House 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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare 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 Buchanan Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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