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Fair View Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$13kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$8kFood & Nutrition$8kCivil Rights$4kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$750
Median grant
4
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY$1,800
UNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC$1,500
HBA BUILDING VISIONS$1,000
ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF E MONTANA$1,000
RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
MONTANA RESCUE MISSION$1,000
MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK$1,000
MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION$750
ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$750
PROMISE 686 INC$750
CASA OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY$650
FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY$650
FAMILY SERVICE$600
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROMISE 686 INC: $750 → 9%PROMISE 686 INC: $750 → 9%PROMISE 686 INC: $500 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%FAMILY SERVICE: $600 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE: $600 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE: $350 → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $300 → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $300 → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $250 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE: $150 → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $1k → 9%ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $500 → 9%ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $450 → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $250 → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $450 → 9%DOG TAG BUDDIES: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
MI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58k · 25 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
12

Total granted

$58k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+63%

Still filing today

92%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
  • MR
    MONTANA RESCUE MISSION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +63%
  • BF
    Billings Food Bank Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of Ricland County M
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BILLINGS
    one grant, 2017 · $850
  • VN
    Veterans Navigation Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $750 · revenue +654%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Yellowstone Health Partnership

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

Health
2
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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3
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
4
Forward Mt Foundation

Educate, engage and organize young montanans to shape their democracy to improve their lives and the lives of fellow montanans.

Health
5
Catholic Social Services of Montana

Based on our commitment to catholic social teaching, catholic social services of montana provides for works of advocacy, compassion, pastoral outreach, education and social justice.

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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
Partnership Health Center Inc

Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.

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8
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
9
Family Health Services Corporation

Family Health Services, a community health center, makes high-quality culturally sensitive, primary medical and dental care, behavioral health, and social services affordable and accessible for the people of South Central Idaho.

Health
10
Intermountain Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of Montana empowers all people to make informed decisions and ensures the freedom to manage their own sexuality, and personal health by providing the highest quality confidential healthcare services, education, and…

Health
11
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
12
Forward Mt

Building the political power with and for young montanans by driving a culture of civic engagement.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Compassion Tanzania 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Social ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%3%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr19%21%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr19%23%35–55yr15%42%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
8%
819/9,939

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $5,778 · OtherMONTANA RESCUE MISSIONST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $2,950 · OtherST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCHBA BUILDING VISIONS — $2,600 · OtherHBA BUILDING VISIONSBoys Girls Club of Ricland County M — $1,500 · OtherBoys Girls Club of Ricland County MBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BILLINGS — $850 · OtherORPHAN HELPERSINC — $1,750 · OtherORPHAN HELPERSINCWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,800 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGEFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $1,150 · Other+13 more — $5,650 · Other+13 moreRiverStone Health Foundation — $4,100 · Human ServicesRiverStone Health…Promise686 Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesPromise686 IncADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $1,750 · Human ServicesADULT RESOURCE AL…FAMILY SERVICE — $1,700 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICESt John's Foundation — $950 · Human ServicesSt John's Foundat…BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $450 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $4,400 · HealthRONALD MCDONA…FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY — $2,350 · HealthFAMILY PROMIS…Compassion Tanzania Inc — $1,050 · HealthCompassion Ta…Veterans Navigation Network — $750 · HealthVeterans Navi…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $300 · HealthUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $6,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…Eagle Mount — $1,500 · PhilanthropyEagle MountUnited Way of Spokane County — $500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of…Billings Food Bank Inc — $4,350 · Food & NutritionBillings Foo…MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $3,600 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $7,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION — $3,900 · Civil Rights
Other$25,028Human Services$11,200Health$8,850Philanthropy$8,750Food & Nutrition$7,950Youth Development$7,750Civil Rights$3,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $7,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $6,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $5,778 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $4,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBillings Food Bank Inc — $4,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation — $4,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION — $3,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $2,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY — $2,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPromise686 Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN HELPERSINC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE — $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Mount — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion Tanzania Inc — $1,050 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Foundation — $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Navigation Network — $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMontana Family Institute Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Spokane County — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Family Foundation Inc — $450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOG TAG BUDDIES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Support Network — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

First Interstate Banc…Town Pump Charitable …Montana Community Fou…Gianforte Family Char…The Mary Alice Fortin…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Scl Health - MontanaCharles M Bair Family…Mkm Foundation IncUnited Way of Yellows…Kampgrounds of Americ…Brosovich Family Foun…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT34.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Mkm Foundation Inc · United Way of Yellowstone County Inc · Kampgrounds of America Foundation · Brosovich Family 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 Fair View 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    6report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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