A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

linusout

2020

kidslearningspecial

2021

education

2022

trainingoutreach

2023

yellowstonebillings

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

Eagle Mount$5,000
CASA of Yellowstone County$5,000
Tumbleweed$2,500
Love and Sonshine Ministries$2,500
Billings Crisis Pregnancy Center$1,500
CLDI$1,500
Better Billings Foundation$1,000
Billings Family YMCA$1,000
Alberta Bair Theatre$1,000
Yellowstone Art Museum$1,000
Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale$1,000
Education Foundation$1,000
YWCA Billings$500
United Way of Yellowstone County$500

02The need

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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$98k · 17 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$98k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+107%

Still filing today

47%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentReligionOther

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 +52%
FS
Family Service
3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +42%
MR
Montana Rescue Mission
3× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +128%

Funded once

BC
Billings Crisis Pregnancy Center dba LaVie
one grant, 2021 · $4k
EF
Eugene F Herman Scottish Rite Speach and Language Disorders Clinic
one grant, 2019 · $2k
FP
Family Promise
one grant, 2019 · $2k

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.

Montana State University Billings

The Foundation is a charitable organization founded to advance the goals of MSU Billings.

Education

Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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Family Promise of Yellowstone Valley

The mission of family promise of yellowstone valley is to help homeless families achieve and sustain independence through a community response to homelessness. our vision is a valley in which every family has a home, a livelihood, and the…

Health

Yellowstone Behavioral Health Foundation

To support behavioral health services in the community.

Health

Youth & Family Connections

Youth and Family Connections provides coordinated multi-agency services for Weld County youth who are engaged in high risk behavior by creating pathways for youth success and partnerships with community, civic and governmental…

Human Services

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

Yellowstone Youth Football

Establish and maintain recreational football program for youth, build character, develop proper morals, discipline and sportsmanship while learning the fundamentals required to participate in full contact football for youth.

Youth Development

Billings Leadership Foundation

To engage, equip, and empower leaders and their organizations to effectively execute their mission to improve our city for the glory of God.

Philanthropy

Billings Food Bank Inc

To assume a leadership role in feeding the hungry by recovering, securing, purchasing, and delivering (both through other agencies and directly) quality food and other products while playing a strong education and advocacy role in…

Food & Nutrition

Ymca of the Rockies

Human Services

Northeast Montana Health Services

To deliver quality, cost-effective health care to the communities that we serve for improvement of human life.

Health

Mountainland Head Start

Empowering young children and families along a path to their highest potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Billings Family Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Leadership & Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$83,700Philanthropy$17,000Human Services$12,800Health$5,000Religion$2,500Education$1,500Environment$1,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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.

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 BancSystem FoundationMT37× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Scl Health - Montana · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Johnson Family Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Billings Community Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Blankets & Bears.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475307572 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Blankets & Bears, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

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

Find your warmest path to First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

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First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

More from the funding graph