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Driggers Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$41k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Environment$166kRecreation & Sports$18kAnimals$12kArts & Culture$10kHealth$6kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$750k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION$9,000
WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE$8,500
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE$7,000
ENTERTAINMENT TO AFFFECT CHANGE$5,000
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE$5,000
WILD EARTH GUARDIANS$4,000
BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE$2,000
TIP-OF-THE-MITT$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $3k → 15%FSH D SOCIETY: $2k → 7%PULAKSI USERS GROUP: $2k → 7%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%HEART OF THE ROCKIES: $8k → 9%NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $15k → 9%PARK COUNTY ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 10%CONSERVATION CONGRESS: $5k → 14%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $3k → 16%YAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $5k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT TO AFFFECT CHANGE: $5k → 17%WILD EARTH GUARDIANS: $5k → 12%AMERICAN RIVERS: $3k → 14%LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%WYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES: $5k → 5%WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE: $7k → 9%MICA GROUP: $3k → 19%IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $1k → 15%MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%HEART OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 9%WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE: $10k → 9%PARK COUNTY ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $3k → 10%CONSERVATION CONGRESS: $5k → 14%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $3k → 16%YAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $5k → 17%WILD EARTH GUARDIANS: $4k → 12%LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%MICA GROUP: $2k → 19%HEART OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 9%WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE: $10k → 9%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $3k → 16%YAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $2k → 17%LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE: $9k → 9%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $2k → 16%LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 9%WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE: $7k → 9%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $2k → 16%TIP-OF-THE-MITT: $1k → 9%NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $5k → 9%BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE: $2k → 16%TIP-OF-THE-MITT: $1k → 9%WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE: $5k → 9%BIG HOLE RIVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%TIP-OF-THE-MITT: $500 → 9%BIG HOLE RIVER FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%TIP-OF-THE-MITT: $500 → 9%TIP-OF-THE-MITT: $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

VT
ID
MT
MI
NY
MA
WY
MD
NM
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 15 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$173k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+9%

Still filing today

87%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • NP
    NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • BH
    BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $13k · revenue +68%
  • CC
    CONSERVATION CONGRESS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WW
    WYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +420%
  • ME
    MONTANA ENVIROMENTAL INFO CENTRE
    one grant, 2025 · $5k
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
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
2
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
3
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
5
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
7
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
8
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
9
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
10
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
11
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
12
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians; the most unlike its peers is K-9 Stray Rescue League. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $18,500 · OtherIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INCHEART OF THE ROCKIES: $17,500 · OtherHEART OF THE ROCKIESSIERRA CLUB: $10,000 · OtherSIERRA CLUBWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $9,000 · OtherWILDEARTH GUARDIANSWILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 · OtherWILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INCENTERTAINMENT TO AFFFECT CHANGE: $5,000 · OtherENTERTAINMENT TO AFFFECT CHANGEMONTANA ENVIROMENTAL INFO CENTRE: $5,000 · OtherMONTANA ENVIROMENTAL INFO CENTRETIP-OF-THE-MITT: $4,000 · Other+3 more: $4,250 · OtherBIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentBIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE INCYAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $12,000 · EnvironmentYAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCILMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $11,500 · EnvironmentMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATIONCONSERVATION CONGRESS: $10,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION CONGRESSPark County Environmental Council: $5,000 · EnvironmentPark County Environmental Counci…Little Traverse Conservancy Inc: $4,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conservancy IncAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $2,500 · Environment+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: $40,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURC…NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCI…WYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES: $5,000 · AnimalsK-9 STRAY RESCUE LEAGUE: $200 · AnimalsMICA GROUP INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureFORWARD MT: $2,500 · Civil RightsFSHD SOCIETY: $1,500 · Health
Other$80,250Environment$61,000Community Improvement$60,000Animals$5,200Arts & Culture$4,500Civil Rights$2,500Health$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYAAK VALLEY FOREST COUNCIL: $12,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION CONGRESS: $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING WILDLIFE ADVOCATES: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD MT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Hole River Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuture West Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetK-9 STRAY RESCUE LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

PatagoniaorgThe High Stakes Found…The Kendeda FundThe Liz Claiborne & A…Harder FoundationMaki FoundationThe Arthur M Blank Fa…Tides FoundationNetwork for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
PatagoniaorgCA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The High Stakes Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation · Harder Foundation · Maki Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Driggers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Driggers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Wildlife Management Institute Inc: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Driggers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Driggers Foundation 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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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