· Public charity
Charlie Russell Riders Foundation Inc
Support of cultural programs, historic preservation programs, animal research/preservation programs
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.
The 2 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $197,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $127,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| C4 FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WESTERN SPIRIT SCOTTSDALE'S MUSEUM OF THE WEST | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Charlie Russell Riders Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 37% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- MSMontana State University Foundation Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +384%
- TCTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +46%
- CHCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CACOWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +4% · 39% of their budget
- MHMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -37%
- UWUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
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.
The cheyenne frontier days old west museum mission is to preserve and share the heritage of the american west as experienced through the celebration of cheyenne frontier day.
Museum of the old west exists to conserve artifacts and buildings which represent the story of wyoming during our country's westward expansion from the fur trade era to the early 1900s. we educate the nearly 25,000 visitors per season on…
The museum of western colorado is an educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets artifacts, specimens, and information concerning the cultural and natural history of western colorado and the contiguous area. we enhance…
The Museum of the Mountain West, Inc. exists to instill in the general public the desire to understand and preserve the history of the Mountain West, including the stories, the memorabilia and the structures.
Briscoe Western Art Museum is a welcoming institution dedicated to celebrating the art, history and culture of the American West. Its gallery of paintings, sculptures, photographs and meticulously crafted artifacts are open to the public…
The desert caballeros western museum's mission is to share the diverse stories, cultures and experiences of the west.
The museum of the great plains collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits historical material relevant to the great plains of north america, fostering research into the region in order to increase knowledge of its history and to make…
Museum development and operation to preserve and protect the cultural and natural history of wind river, sweetwater and south pass areas with historical exhibits and a variety of programs.
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The mission of the northwest museum of arts & culture foundation is to financially support the eastern washington state historical society dba northwest museum of arts & culture as it actively engages all people in appreciation of arts and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the most unlike its peers is Upstate Warrior Solution 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 12 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 Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE COUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bill Memorial 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Charlie Russell Riders Foundation Inc 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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