· Private foundation
Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $608k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Homer & Mildred Scott Foundation | $250,000 |
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $106,000 |
| Tongue River Valley Community Center | $100,500 |
| Volunteers of America | $100,000 |
| YWCA | $51,000 |
| Montana Stock Growers Association | $50,000 |
| Wyoming Stock Growers Endowment Trust | $50,000 |
| Green House Living | $50,000 |
| Help Center Inc | $50,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Bighorns | $50,000 |
| Thrive | $41,000 |
| Bozeman Schools Foundation | $40,000 |
| Montana State University | $35,263 |
| Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation | $25,450 |
| Wyoming Agricultural Leadership Council | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 21 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
- TRTONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $378k · revenue +21%
- TITHRIVE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $311k · revenue +2%
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL6× · 2019–2024 · $216k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +30%
- CDCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -6%
- SCSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -30%
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 promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Provide shelter, food, medical care and adoption services to abused, neglected, homeless and abandoned animals.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life
The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Evelyn Cameron Heritage Inc Evelyn Cameron Foundation. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 146 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 TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN BIGHORNS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA STOCKGROWERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds RIMROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds DOG & CAT SHELTER 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · Charles M Bair Family Trust
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 Dan & Jeanne Scott 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.
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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