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Foundation for Community Vitality

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$264k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Community Improvement$865kEnvironment$461kEducation$447kCivil Rights$322kYouth Development$278kPublic Benefit$248kHealth$155kRecreation & Sports$133kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$7,892
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
People's Partners for Community Dev$58,433
Plenty Doors Community Development Corp$40,000
Messengers for Health$40,000
City of Lodge Grass$35,781
Leadership Montana$24,000
Little Big Horn College$18,856
Crow Tribe of Indians$10,000
Leadership Wyoming$9,500
Seventh Generation Fund$7,892
Montana State University$4,740
Thresh$2,500
Piikanii Lodge Health Institute$2,500
Blackfeet Indian Land Trust$2,500
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter$2,500
Project Hope$2,000
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 (FY19–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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%Center Pole: $155k → 23%Center Pole: $95k → 23%Tumbleweed: $2k → 9%Center Pole: $72k → 23%Project Hope: $2k → 10%Project Hope: $300 → 10%One Heart Warriors: $3k → 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 22 repeat orgs$695k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
40

Total granted

$2.3M
$666k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • PD
    PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $307k · revenue ×13 · 48% of their budget
  • MF
    MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH
    3× · 2021–2024 · $146k · revenue +47% · 31% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2020–2022 · $146k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Northern Cheyenne
    one grant, 2019 · $137k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • PD
    Plenty Doors Community Development Group
    one grant, 2022 · $79k

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
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
2
Scenic Montana Trails
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
4
Northern Plains Resource Council

Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch…

Community Improvement
5
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
6
Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative

To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Prickly Pear Land Trust

To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
9
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

10
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
11
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
12
Yellowstone to Yukon

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Programs Focus on Connecting and Protecting Habitat from Yellowstone to the Yukon so people and nature can thrive.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Palm Springs Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%21%5–10yr18%30%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr18%15%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%26%5–10yr18%35%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr18%15%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/39
the rest of the field
10%
248/2,543

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

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 72 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

City of Lodge Grass — $406,563 · OtherCity of Lodge GrassPeople's Partners for Community Dev — $241,863 · OtherPeople's Partners for Community DevLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE — $230,065 · OtherLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGEBoys and Girls Club of Northern Cheyenne — $136,640 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Northern CheyenneTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient — $99,567 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPlenty Doors Community Development Group — $78,833 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass — $72,759 · Other+45 more — $436,143 · Other+45 morePLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $307,439 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMMUN…THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $145,745 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLES PARTNER…HOPA MOUNTAIN INC — $74,218 · Community ImprovementHOPA MOUNTAIN INCCenter Pole — $322,200 · Human ServicesCenter Pole+4 more — $14,692 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC — $85,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $45,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $38,246 · Education+2 more — $1,865 · EducationMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH — $145,849 · Health+1 more — $1,535 · HealthLEADERSHIP WYOMING — $69,921 · Public BenefitSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $55,000 · EnvironmentBIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,200 · Environment
Other$1,802,433Community Improvement$527,402Human Services$336,892Education$170,111Health$147,384Public Benefit$69,921Environment$66,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCenter Pole — $322,200 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $307,439 over 5y, 48% of budgetMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH — $145,849 over 3y, 31% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $145,745 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC — $74,218 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass — $72,759 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING — $69,921 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $55,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $38,246 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Hands in Hardin Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBlue Bird LifeWays — $16,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $7,892 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPiikani Lodge Health Institute — $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOne Heart Warriors — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Hope — $2,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCINE BILLINGS — $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood — $1,535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADE — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL — $1,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Her Campaign — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO — $965 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN HERITAGE CENTER — $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $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.

  • Who funds Center Pole
  • Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH
  • Who funds THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTANA INC
  • Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING
  • Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin Inc
  • Who funds Blue Bird LifeWays
  • Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC
  • Who funds Piikani Lodge Health Institute
  • Who funds NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HALL OF FAME

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 Foundation IncMT46.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Northwest Area Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Op & We Edwards Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Hopa Mountain Inc · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Oro y Plata 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 Foundation for Community Vitality 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    11report 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, FY2025

    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 Foundation for Community Vitality?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for Community Vitality 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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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