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First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
767
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$663k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$4.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MFood & Nutrition$3.2MHealth$2.5MEducation$2.3MHousing & Shelter$2.0MYouth Development$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 767 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k644 grants · $1.6M
  • $10k–50k116 grants · $2.3M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $437k
  • $250k+1 grant · $663k
$2,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$663,178
YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION$125,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC$103,000
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$59,490
RIVERPEAK HEALTH$50,000
Billings School District$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA$50,000
WISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC$40,245
E4E RELIEF LLC$38,713
FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC$37,500
IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$36,000
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA$35,500
MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY$32,500
COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC$32,500
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC$30,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Aiding Angels Inc: $25k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF WESTERN NEBRASKA: $25k → 15%Mountain Home Montana Inc: $36k → 9%Dog Tag Buddies: $25k → 9%EUREKA CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $26k → 12%PROJECT PATCHWORK: $25k → 8%Laboratory To Combat Human Trafficking: $25k → 12%Washington Gorge Action Programs: $26k → 10%Matthews Voice Project: $25k → 12%Abbott House Inc: $25k → 14%L2 for Kids Inc A Nebraska Non Profit Corp: $25k → 12%Watson Children's Shelter: $27k → 9%Mainstream Living Inc: $25k → 17%Safehome Inc: $25k → 5%First Stop Help Center: $26k → 17%Crooks Community Child Care Center: $25k → 9%Heart-N-Soul Community Cafe Inc: $25k → 12%Tumbleweed Runaway Program: $57k → 9%Climb Wyoming: $26k → 17%THE FAMILY CENTER - LA FAMILIA: $26k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSN: $25k → 9%Community Leadership and Development Inc (CLDI): $44k → 9%Family Inc: $25k → 12%Advocacy & Resource Center: $26k → 10%The Children's Village: $28k → 10%Community Leadership and Development Inc (CLDI): $43k → 9%North Valley Food Bank Inc: $26k → 11%Angels Share Inc: $25k → 12%HEALING HOUSE INC: $26k → 15%Women's and Children's Alliance: $28k → 8%WESTERN MONTANA CHAPTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF ELDER ABUSE: $25k → 9%Community Leadership and Development Inc (CLDI): $30k → 9%VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $25k → 11%Women's and Children's Alliance: $25k → 8%Tumbleweed Runaway Program: $30k → 9%Project Intentional Inc: $26k → 12%Chartiable Assistance To Community's Homeless Inc (CATCH Inc): $25k → 8%Center for Restorative Youth Justice: $25k → 11%Mountain Shadow Association: $40k → 10%EAST RIVER FOSTER PARENT NETWORK: $26k → 9%Call to Freedom: $25k → 9%Every Child Central Oregon: $26k → 10%Greater Missoula Family YMCA: $28k → 9%Greater Missoula Family YMCA: $28k → 9%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $33k → 10%St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc: $45k → 9%St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc: $26k → 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

VT
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ID
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IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
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NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 1152 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

1152 repeat relationships — 469 still active in FY2025, 683 since wound down; 174 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1152
642

Total granted

$20M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

79%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $526k · revenue +19%
  • LW
    LEADERSHIP WYOMING
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +240%
  • MF
    MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CV
    Cobre Valley Hospital
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • BC
    BOULDER COUNTY RSVP BOARD INC dba CULTIVATE
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -4%
  • CC
    CARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -10%

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
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
2
Regional West Health Services

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

Health
3
Montana Land to Hand

To build a strong community food system that fosters socially just ways of accessing food

Food & Nutrition
4
Foothills Housing Corporation

Providing safe, decent & affordable housing opportunities.

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5
Community Council of Idaho Inc

To strengthen families in our communities by offering opportunities in education, housing, health, employment and legal services.

Human Services
6
Partnership Health Center Inc

Medical, dental, and mental health services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured patients in the missoula, montana region.

—
7
Community Foundation of Grand Forks

To connect people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
8
Feeding Colorado

Collaboration and advocacy for the five feeding america food banks in co and wy.

Food & Nutrition
9
Rainier Valley Food Bank

Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.

Unclassified
10
Prairie Harvest Mental Health

We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.

Human Services
11
Missoula Economic Partnership

Supporting sustainable business growth and quality job creation throughout missoula county.

Community Improvement
12
Second Harvest Inland Northwest

Providing food to needy families in the community.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community and the most unlike its peers is Lifescape. 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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Community Food PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Social ServicesSchool District FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesChristian Youth CampsSchool Parent OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Local Food System Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Construc…Policy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesPublic Library OperationsEquine Therapy ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersYmca Youth DevelopmentSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%19/2,457
the rest of the field
13%
240,377/1,817,108

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

1482 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. 1482 of the 2,000 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
336
Early backer (in before they grew)
1452/1482
Grantees still filing
900/1482
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $1,350,724 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING F…WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $297,306 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FO…UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS — $142,575 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC — $121,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $99,362 · Philanthropy+14 more — $785,775 · Philanthropy+14 moreLEADERSHIP WYOMING — $245,462 · Other+104 more — $5,492,719 · Other+104 moreCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $173,289 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEAD…TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $132,801 · Human ServicesTUMBLEWEED RUN…GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $107,910 · Human ServicesGREATER MISSOU…CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $84,500 · Human ServicesWomen's and Children's Alliance — $71,296 · Human ServicesSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc — $70,715 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $65,345 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SHADOW ASSOCIATION — $65,000 · Human Services+25 more — $1,063,644 · Human Services+25 moreMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $189,367 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FO…SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $177,730 · Food & NutritionSECOND HAR…IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $116,345 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOOD…FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $112,528 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SO…HELENA FOOD SHARE INC — $107,781 · Food & NutritionHELENA FOO…WYOMING FOOD FOR THOUGHT PROJECT — $63,535 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING PLATE — $63,399 · Food & NutritionCDA BACKPACK PROGRAM INC — $58,497 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $53,900 · Food & NutritionLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY — $42,411 · Food & Nutrition+7 more — $247,749 · Food & Nutrition+7 moreMontana State University Foundation Inc — $176,560 · EducationLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC — $153,680 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $119,423 · EducationLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA — $96,053 · EducationBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $64,621 · EducationMontana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni — $58,835 · EducationBLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $52,500 · EducationTeen Closet — $48,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGE — $33,660 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $33,345 · EducationConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — $32,500 · EducationTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY — $31,300 · EducationFOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC — $152,500 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,833 · Community ImprovementMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION — $98,500 · Community ImprovementMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $80,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $60,020 · Community ImprovementRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $55,145 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Association of Oregon — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT FALLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY — $49,850 · Community ImprovementCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES — $46,402 · Community ImprovementNEWBO CITY MARKET — $31,000 · Community ImprovementMERCER COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP — $30,927 · Community ImprovementSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $525,746 · Recreation & SportsYELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$2,796,992Other$5,738,181Human Services$1,834,500Food & Nutrition$1,233,242Education$936,177Community Improvement$760,177Recreation & Sports$650,746

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $1,350,724 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $525,746 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $297,306 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING — $245,462 over 6y, 17% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $189,367 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC — $188,052 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST — $177,730 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $176,560 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $173,289 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $154,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC — $153,680 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetFOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC — $152,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $144,971 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS — $142,575 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $132,801 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC — $121,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $119,423 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE — $116,345 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $113,527 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $112,528 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $107,910 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHELENA FOOD SHARE INC — $107,781 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $105,833 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetMONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $104,500 over 6y, 43% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $101,588 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $100,476 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $99,362 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION — $98,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA — $96,053 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $92,728 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $90,855 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $84,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID — $84,422 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming — $84,040 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $83,940 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHelping Hands in Hardin Inc — $77,592 over 6y, 14% of budgetBLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $76,308 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC — $73,186 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSIOUX FALLS CARES INC — $71,545 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance — $71,296 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc — $70,715 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $68,653 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC — $68,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $67,900 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $67,380 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $65,702 over 6y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
  • Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin Inc ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…Sample Foundation IncTreacy FoundationTown Pump Charitable …Wyoming Assn of Non P…Gianforte Family Char…Dan & Jeanne Scott Fa…Wyoming Community Fou…Headwaters Health Fou…United Way of Deschut…Homer A Scott & Mildr…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT103.7× affinity215 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · United Way of Deschutes County · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott 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 First Interstate BancSystem Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
  • Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
  • Project Patchwork — 44% of income from government
  • The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
  • Nonprofit Association of Oregon — 6% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades — 3% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
  • Josephine County Food Bank — 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Jackson County Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 2000 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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