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Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc at a glance

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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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
86
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$167kHuman Services$157kHealth$121kAnimals$80kHousing & Shelter$76kArts & Culture$69kReligion$59kYouth Development$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k83 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSU BILLINGS FOUNDATION$20,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME$16,500
ZOO MONTANA$10,000
MSU BILLINGS FOUNDATION$7,950
SPECIAL K RANCH INC$7,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION$7,500
CONGREGATION BETH AARON$6,000
FAMILY TREE NURTURING CENTER$5,000
FAMILY SERVICE INC$5,000
LA LECHE LEAGUE USA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MONTANA AUDUBON CONSERVATION EDUCAT$5,000
LALECHE LEAGUEVINTERNATIONAL$5,000
FAMILY SERVICE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
LYDIAS HOUSE$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $500 → 18%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $2k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $2k → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $2k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $2k → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $1k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $1k → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%S JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $500 → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $500 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $1k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $1k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $500 → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CO
MO
WV
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$973k · 89 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
10

Total granted

$973k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

49%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LL
    LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +150%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +29%
  • YA
    YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • BS
    BIG SKY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -48%
  • RH
    RIVERSTONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yellowstone Health Partnership

The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.

Health
2
Montana Hospital Association

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.

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3
Montana Chamber of Commerce

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,…

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4
Billings Clinic

Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.

Health
5
Scenic Montana Trails
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6
Partnership for Children

To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.

Human Services
7
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
8
Montana Medical Association

To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.

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9
Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch

Caring people, preparing youth for life.

Health
10
Missoula Electric Cooperative Inc

Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.

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11
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana

Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.

Health
12
St Luke Community Hospital

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MSU BILLINGS FOUNDATION: $84,250 · OtherMSU BILLINGS FOUNDATIONCONGREGATION BETH AARON: $54,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH AARONFAMILY PROMISE: $47,100 · OtherFAMILY PROMISEYOUTH DYNAMICS INC: $44,000 · OtherYOUTH DYNAMICS INCFAMILY SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherMONTANA AUDUBON CONSERVATION EDUCAT: $34,000 · OtherLA LECHE LEAGUE USA: $30,000 · Other+79 more: $419,542 · Other+79 moreFAMILY SERVICE: $43,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SE…RiverStone Health Foundation: $18,500 · Human ServicesRiverSton…BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBILLINGS …EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $10,000 · Human ServicesEAGLE MOU…St John's Foundation: $6,000 · Human ServicesSt John's…+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: $24,000 · Arts & CultureALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 · InternationalZooMontana Inc: $20,598 · AnimalsANGEL HORSES INC: $11,000 · AnimalsYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10,000 · AnimalsBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,500 · EducationGRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $5,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $4,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationEmory University: $3,500 · EducationYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $3,500 · EducationHEAD START INC: $2,000 · EducationMONTANA AUDUBON: $16,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $5,500 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $1,000 · Environment
Other$752,892Human Services$91,500Arts & Culture$46,000International$45,000Animals$41,598Education$38,500Environment$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC: $45,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $43,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM: $24,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,390 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetZooMontana Inc: $20,598 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation: $18,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA AUDUBON: $16,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBILLINGS EXCHANGE CLUBS CHILD ABUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetANGEL HORSES INC: $11,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBILLINGS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $7,600 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MONTANA COUNCIL: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $4,900 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget1894 INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CASA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHOULDER TO SHOULDER: $3,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEAD START INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA AUDUBON ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS EXCHANGE CLUBS CHILD ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC ↗
  • Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Treacy FoundationSample Foundation IncTown Pump Charitable …Charles M Bair Family…The Mary Alice Fortin…Scl Health - MontanaGE McDonald FoundationBillings Community Fo…Gianforte Family Char…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT61.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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