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Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of DONALD & CAROL ROBERTS FOUNDATION IN MEMORY OF VIRGINIA K WESTON INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSU BILLINGS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME | $16,500 |
| ZOO MONTANA | $10,000 |
| MSU BILLINGS FOUNDATION | $7,950 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SPECIAL K RANCH INC | $7,500 |
| CONGREGATION BETH AARON | $6,000 |
| LALECHE LEAGUEVINTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| FAMILY TREE NURTURING CENTER | $5,000 |
| MONTANA AUDUBON CONSERVATION EDUCAT | $5,000 |
| LA LECHE LEAGUE USA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- LLLA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +150%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +29%
- YAYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- BSBIG SKY INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $4k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -48%
- RHRIVERSTONE HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
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,…
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.
Caring people, preparing youth for life.
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guttmacher Institute Inc. 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 43 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.
53 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. 53 of the 112 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 LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DYNAMICS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds RiverStone Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS EXCHANGE CLUBS CHILD ABUSE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS 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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · GE McDonald Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable 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 Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston 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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