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Foundation for Community Vitality

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$413k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$865kEnvironment$461kEducation$447kCivil Rights$322kYouth Development$278kPublic Benefit$248kHealth$155kRecreation & Sports$133kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Lodge Grass$81,088
Helping Hands Food Bank$80,000
Messengers for Health$33,800
Individual grant recipient$30,018
The Nature Conservancy - Wyoming$25,000
Crow Fair Pow Wow$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,200
Boys & Girls Club Northern Cheyenne (LD)$20,000
City of Lodge Grass$13,590
Messengers for Health$12,168
Leadership Wyoming$7,000
Little Big Horn College$5,000
City of Lodge Grass$5,000
Wise Wonders Children's Museum$5,000
City of Lodge Grass$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Center Pole: $155k → 23%Center Pole: $95k → 23%Center Pole: $72k → 23%Tumbleweed: $2k → 9%Project Hope: $2k → 10%Project Hope: $1k → 10%Project Hope: $300 → 10%Tumbleweed: $500 → 9%One Heart Warriors: $3k → 9%One Heart Warriors: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 26 repeat orgs$732k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

$2.7M
$668k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+31%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2019–2025 · $317k · revenue ×13 · 48% of their budget
  • MF
    MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH
    4× · 2021–2025 · $192k · 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

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

—
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation

We are a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. We are dedicated to our mission of protecting & revitalizing Indigenous cultures, empowering them in the direct application of their traditional knowledge & practices on their ancestral…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Western Leaders Network

We unite, support and cultivate local, tribal and state elected officials in the Interior West (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and in the Ohio River Valley (Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia) to…

Environment
10
National Pronghorn Interpretive and Visitors Center

Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.

Arts & Culture
11
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
12
Colorado Plateau Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Stillwater Senior Citizens Center. 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

41 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. 41 of the 81 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Lodge Grass: $517,723 · OtherCity of Lodge GrassPeople's Partners for Community Dev: $241,863 · OtherPeople's Partners for Community DevLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE: $237,565 · OtherLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGEBoys and Girls Club of Northern Cheyenne: $136,640 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Northern CheyenneTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $99,567 · OtherHelping Hands Food Bank: $94,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $92,790 · OtherPlenty Doors Community Development Group: $78,833 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass: $72,759 · Other+51 more: $425,571 · Other+51 morePLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $317,439 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMM…THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $145,745 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLES PARTN…HOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $77,806 · Community ImprovementHOPA MOUNTAIN INCCenter Pole: $322,200 · Human ServicesCenter Pol…+4 more: $18,692 · Human Services+4 moreMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $191,817 · Health+1 more: $1,535 · HealthLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC: $85,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc: $38,246 · Education+2 more: $1,865 · EducationSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $55,000 · EnvironmentBLACKFEET INDIAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST CORPORATION: $22,500 · EnvironmentBIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,200 · EnvironmentLEADERSHIP WYOMING: $76,921 · Public Benefit
Other$2,122,811Community Improvement$540,990Human Services$340,892Health$193,352Education$170,111Environment$88,700Public Benefit$76,921

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter Pole: $322,200 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $317,439 over 6y, 48% of budgetMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $191,817 over 4y, 31% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $145,745 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $77,806 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP WYOMING: $76,921 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass: $72,759 over 4y, 6.3% 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 budgetCrow Fair Pow Wow: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBLACKFEET INDIAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST CORPORATION: $22,500 over 3y, 63% 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: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetProject Hope: $3,300 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN CHEYENNE FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINDIAN NATIONS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCINE BILLINGS: $2,250 over 2y, 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 budgetSTILLWATER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Lodge Grass ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Crow Fair Pow Wow ↗
  • Who funds BLACKFEET INDIAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST CORPORATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Gianforte Family Char…Northwest Area Founda…First Nations Develop…Op & We Edwards Found…Otto Bremer TrustSeventh Generation Fu…Hopa Mountain IncDonald & Carol Robert…Oro y Plata Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Community Vitality funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Community Vitality. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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