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Fred L Hartley Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NW MONTANA | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BIGFORK YOUTH BASEBALL INC | $25,000 |
| TURTLE CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| BIGFORK LADIES SERVICE CLUB | $10,000 |
| FLATHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE | $10,000 |
| COMFORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BIGFORK FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +63%- SSAMSAT3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +10%
- TJTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- RFROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2018 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
Fire prevention and protection
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
Provide food for individuals in need
To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.
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…
To enrich the resources and facilities of the valley of the tetons library.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
Breaking barriers to ignite the curiosity in all of us.
Providing fire protection
Wildfires in the area of Idyllwild, California in accordance with the fire safe laws of the state and federal governments To preserve and enhance Idyllwild and surrounding areas and man-made and natural resources by providing leadership…
Camp fire alaska provides opportunities for youth to realize their full potential and to function as caring, self-directed individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc and the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 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. 55 of the 91 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMSAT ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSPORTS ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KALISPELL INC ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK LADIES SERVICE CLUB ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NW MONTANA ↗
- Who funds AID THE SILENT ↗
- Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Roundup for Safety Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Oro y Plata Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Susan Kay Pederson Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · 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 Fred L Hartley Family 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.
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.
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