· Private foundation
Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 $10k244 grants · $935k
- $10k–50k252 grants · $4.0M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+25 grants · $43M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA | $5,000,000 |
| STATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| STATE OF MONTANA - MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $3,690,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,301,475 |
| XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,250,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - WFR | $1,109,821 |
| DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION THE | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION - 21ST CENTURY TEACHING & LEARNING INITIAT | $800,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION - EDREADY | $700,000 |
| WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION | $568,342 |
| WASHINGTON KIDS FOUNDATION | $502,830 |
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, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation’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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
563 repeat relationships — 356 still active in FY2024, 207 since wound down; 88 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.4M 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
- GMGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +81%
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +112%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- LGLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2.2M
- VHVICTORIA HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- RCROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2.0M
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 advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
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 create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
To build upon the economic base in flathead county by assisting business startups and expansion activities with resources and valuable connections. montana west delivers local business economic development services targeted to impact job…
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
The mission of the montana farm bureau foundation (mfbfo) is to support montana agriculture through education, research, and community support, with a special emphasis for the development of our youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
608 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. 608 of the 1,030 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DESIGN LAB ↗
- Who funds MONTANA PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTE FAMILY YMCA ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Oro y Plata Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · The High Stakes 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 Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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.
- Bradley Angle — 10% 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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