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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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 (FY17–25, $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. Its 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
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

WA
MT
MI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+40%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN HELPERSINC: $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetMONTANA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVeterans Navigation Network: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Spokane County: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Family Institute Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Family Foundation Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.2% 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
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.

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

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 Fair View Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fair View Foundation. 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
    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
    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.

    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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