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First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2019–2023.

Human Services$37kCrime & Legal$18kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$14kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$8kArts & Culture$8kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA of Yellowstone County$5,000
Eagle Mount$5,000
Love and Sonshine Ministries$2,500
Tumbleweed$2,500
Billings Crisis Pregnancy Center$1,500
CLDI$1,500
Better Billings Foundation$1,000
Billings Family YMCA$1,000
Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale$1,000
Education Foundation$1,000
Yellowstone Art Museum$1,000
Alberta Bair Theatre$1,000
United Way of Yellowstone County$500
YWCA Billings$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 (FY19–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Service: $3k → 9%Tumbleweed: $3k → 9%Tumbleweed: $3k → 9%Family Service: $2k → 9%Tumbleweed: $2k → 9%Family Service: $2k → 9%Community Leadership and Development: $2k → 9%Community Leadership & Development Inc: $2k → 9%Billings Family YMCA: $1k → 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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$98k · 17 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$98k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+19%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureReligionEducationOther

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

  • EM
    Eagle Mount
    4× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +71%
  • MR
    MONTANA RESCUE MISSION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +113%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • BC
    Billings Crisis Pregnancy Center dba LaVie
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • FP
    Family Promise
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +121%

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 Boys & Girls Ranch

Caring people, preparing youth for life.

Health
2
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
3
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.

Animals
4
Billings Community Foundation

To enhance the capacity of donors and charitable organizations to meet the needs of the greater billings community. we manage endowment funds for community 501 (c)(3) organizations in the greater billings, mt area. billings community…

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5
Yellowstone Behavioral Health

Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county

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6
Youth & Family Connections Co Trestle Inc

Youth and Family Connections provides youth and families resources and alternatives that lead to a successful life.

Human Services
7
Youth Crisis Center

Crisis mission: to provide temporary care and shelter for abused, abandoned or neglected children long term mission: to provide a residency program for children without a stable home.

Housing & Shelter
8
Scenic Montana Trails
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9
Child Care Resources

Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.

Human Services
10
Yavapai Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation
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11
Billings Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.

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12
Big Sky Youth Education Foundation

Ensuring that christian education can thrive in montana by supporting billings christian school and montana bible college

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Yellowstone County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blankets & Bears 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

22 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. 22 of the 36 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CASA of Yellowstone County — $17,500 · OtherCASA of Yellowstone CountyThe Family Tree Center — $12,500 · OtherThe Family Tree CenterMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $5,500 · OtherMONTANA RESCUE MISSIONBillings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale — $4,500 · OtherBillings Symphony Orchestra and ChoraleEducation Foundation — $4,000 · OtherEducation FoundationBillings Crisis Pregnancy Center dba LaVie — $3,500 · OtherYOUTH DYNAMICS INC — $3,000 · OtherYWCA Billings — $3,000 · OtherCLDI — $3,000 · OtherMontana Audubon Center — $2,500 · Other+8 more — $9,500 · Other+8 moreFAMILY SERVICE — $7,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICETUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesTUMBLEWEED RUNAWA…COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $3,800 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEADERS…BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesEagle Mount — $11,500 · PhilanthropyEagle MountBLANKETS & BEARS INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyBLANKETS & BEAR…BETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyBETTER BILLINGS…+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $5,000 · ReligionLOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES — $2,500 · ReligionBILLINGS CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $3,000 · HealthEugene F Herman Scottish Rite Childhood Language Clinic — $2,000 · HealthCHINOOK HORSES — $2,000 · HealthWISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC — $1,200 · Arts & CultureYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $1,000 · Arts & CultureALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMONTANA AUDUBON — $1,500 · EnvironmentYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START — $1,500 · Education
Other$68,500Human Services$18,800Philanthropy$17,000Religion$7,500Health$7,000Arts & Culture$3,200Environment$1,500Education$1,500

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEagle Mount — $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $3,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLANKETS & BEARS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetBETTER BILLINGS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEugene F Herman Scottish Rite Childhood Language Clinic — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHINOOK HORSES — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMONTANA AUDUBON — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $500 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…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…Charles M Bair Family…The Mary Alice Fortin…Gianforte Family Char…Billings Community Fo…Donald & Carol Robert…Scl Health - MontanaTown Pump Charitable …Sample Foundation IncM J Murdock Charitabl…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT43× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Billings Community Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Scl Health - Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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 Bank Centennial Youth 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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