· Public charity
Energy Share of Montana Inc
Montanans helping neighbors faced with energy emergencies maintaining their self-reliance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $853k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| District VII HRDC | $834,521 |
| Opportunities Inc | $680,807 |
| District XI HRDC | $344,822 |
| Rocky Mountain Development | $213,265 |
| Action Inc | $189,442 |
| Action for Eastern Montana | $139,103 |
| District IX HRDC | $110,944 |
| District VI HRDC | $81,874 |
| Community Action Partnership | $67,011 |
| District IV HRDC | $51,120 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $26,487 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $25,217 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- D7DISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +9%
- OIOPPORTUNITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +44%
- DXDISTRICT XI HUMAN RESOURCE COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HFHabitat for Humanity Internationalone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -6%
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 coordinate and provide services for people with needs so they can improve their quality of life.
To provide a wide range of services in an effort to help improve the quality of life for people with an economic disadvantage.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
Montanans helping neighbors faced with energy emergencies maintaining their self-reliance. Energy Share of Montana provides energy assistance and help for Montana families for emergency heating needs through bill assistance, furnace and…
To provide energy conservation measures, home services to elderly and handicapped and emergency energy assistance.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
Habitat for humanity of north idaho works in partnership with the community to build decent, energy efficient houses for qualified families in kootenai county.
Our mission is to stimulate a focusing of all available resources upon the goal of enabling area low-income families and individuals of all ages to attain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to…
Development of affordable housing
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in Wasco, Hood River, and Sherman Counties. The purpose of MCCAC shall be the promotion of self sufficiency in families and individuals within the low income economic ranges in the three…
Community services to provide assistance to low-income residents of Huntsville, Madison and Limestone Counties
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is District 7 Human Resources Development Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 DISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT XI HUMAN RESOURCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MONTANA HUMAN RESOURCES INC DBA COMMUNITY ACTION PARNERSHIP NW MT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA DISTRICT SIX RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT IV HUMAN RESOURCE DEV COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Montana ↗
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity International ↗
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: Montana Homeownership Network Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Energy Share of Montana 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.