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First Security Bank Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2017
40
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k38 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bridgercare$20,000
Reach$10,000
Thrive$6,000
Gallatin Foundation (Farm Fair)$5,250
Choteau County Healthcare Foundation$5,000
Bozeman Schools Foundation$5,000
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks$5,000
Montana Outdoor Science School$4,500
Haven$4,000
Little Rangers Learning Center$3,750
Help Center$3,170
Big Brothers Big Sisters$3,000
Bridger Ski Foundation$3,000
Bozeman Public Library Foundation$3,000
GV Economic Dev Foundation (Prospera)$3,000
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Reach: $10k → 10%Help Center: $3k → 10%Befrienders: $500 → 10%Little Rangers Learning Center: $4k → 10%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 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
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment
2
Scenic Montana Trails
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3
Gallatin Valley Foundation for Economic Development Inc Dba Prospera Foundation

The foundation works to strengthen the economy of gallatin county, montana through local business development activities in an effort to attract, retain and grow jobs and businesses throughout gallatin county.

Community Improvement
4
Gallatin Ice Foundation Inc

To provide the greater Gallatin valley community fun and affordable ice skating opportunities which include hockey, figure skating, and recreational ice skating for the citizens young and old, and of all skill levels.

Philanthropy
5
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
6
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
7
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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8
School of the Beartooths

Early childhood education and care. Mountain Bluebells recognizes and values the uniqueness of each child and fosters within them a sense of belonging inclusivity and connection. We believe that by engaging their heads hearts and hands we…

Education
9
Mountainland Head Start

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

Education
10
Family Connections Inc

Family connections utilizes the strength of community to support exceptional early childhood experiences.

Health
11
Bozeman Area Chamber of Commerce

The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.

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12
Morningstar Learning Center Inc

Morningstar Learning Center's mission is to develop and connect Big Sky's young children and families by providing reliable childcare, quality early education, and supportive resources from planning through parenthood.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bozeman Library Friends and Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Belgrade Baseball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 40 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIDGERCARE — $20,000 · OtherBRIDGERCARETHRIVE INC — $6,000 · OtherTHRIVE INCGallatin Foundation (Farm Fair) — $5,250 · OtherGallatin Foundation (Farm Fair)CHOUTEAU COUNTY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherCHOUTEAU COUNTY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCMontana Shakespeare in the Parks — $5,000 · OtherMontana Shakespeare in the ParksBozeman Schools Foundation — $5,000 · OtherBozeman Schools FoundationHAVEN — $4,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters — $3,000 · OtherGV Economic Dev Foundation (Prospera) — $3,000 · OtherBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Other+17 more — $18,600 · Other+17 moreREACH INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesREACH INCLITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER — $3,750 · Human ServicesLITTLE RANGER LEA…HELP CENTER INC — $3,170 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INC+2 more — $750 · Human ServicesMontana Outdoor Science School — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentBelgrade Community Library Foundation — $2,250 · EducationEmily Dickinson Parent Advisory Council — $2,000 · EducationBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsBELGRADE BASEBALL INC — $250 · Recreation & SportsONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $1,004 · PhilanthropyGallatin Valley Farm to School — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$77,850Human Services$17,670Youth Development$4,500Education$4,250Recreation & Sports$3,250Philanthropy$3,004Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetBRIDGERCARE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREACH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHOUTEAU COUNTY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetHAVEN — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER — $3,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHELP CENTER INC — $3,170 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBelgrade Community Library Foundation — $2,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC — $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $1,004 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM IN THE DELL ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT BENTON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION — $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…Yellowstone Club Comm…Town Pump Charitable …Bozeman Deaconess Hea…Gilhousen Family Foun…One Valley Community …Greater Gallatin Unit…First Interstate Banc…Otto Bremer TrustCross Charitable Foun…Gianforte Family Char…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT35.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · Gilhousen Family Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Gianforte Family 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 Security Bank 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.

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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
    4report 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 40 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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