· Community foundation
Flathead Community Foundation Inc
Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise investment management; and distributing fund proceeds according to donor wishes through grants to local…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE | $20,000 |
| ROLFING FAMILY FUND GRANTS | $7,000 |
| HEART PROGRAM | $7,000 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COL | $6,500 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $6,500 |
| FLATHEAD FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTE | $6,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1665% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +13%
- FLFLATHEAD LAND TRUST3× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue ×18
- IGINTERFUND GRANTS2× · 2017–2019 · $48k
Funded once
- PTPAWS TO PLAY DOG PARKone grant, 2017 · $23k
- ILIMAGINEIF LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $13k
- MEMT ENVIRONMENTAL INFO CENTERone grant, 2019 · $11k
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.
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.
Search & rescue
Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise…
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Our mission is to save lives and encourage dignity through low barrier access to a warm safe place to sleep for anyone in need throughout the coldest months of the year.
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
We protect, connect and restore wildlands and wildlife from the washington coast to the british columbia rockies.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds United Way ↗
- Who funds RAVENWOOD OUTDOOR LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds SWAN VIEW COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILD SWAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Cadeau Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Floyd Foundation · Broussard Charitable Foundation Tr · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Flathead Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flathead Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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