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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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$352kRecreation & Sports$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$209kEducation$146kFood & Nutrition$138kScience & Tech$125kEnvironment$122kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $5k → 16%MARTHAS VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $5k → 11%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND: $5k → 14%NORTHWEST MONTANA VETERANS STAND DOWN: $10k → 11%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME: $6k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME & SERVICES INC: $6k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME & SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME & SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
IA
CA
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 34 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
44

Total granted

$2.8M
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

71%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $900k · revenue +63%
  • S
    SAMSAT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +10%
  • TJ
    THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • RF
    ROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
Flathead Land Trust

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…

Environment
2
Weaverland Valley Fire Department

Fire prevention and protection

Public Safety & Disaster
3
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

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.

Youth Development
4
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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5
Flathead Community Health Center Inc

To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.

Health
6
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…

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7
Valley of the Tetons Library Foundation and Friends Incorporated

To enrich the resources and facilities of the valley of the tetons library.

Education
8
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Fargo-Moorhead Science Museum

Breaking barriers to ignite the curiosity in all of us.

Arts & Culture
10
Lakeview Fire Protection District

Providing fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Camp Fire Alaska

Camp fire alaska provides opportunities for youth to realize their full potential and to function as caring, self-directed individuals.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
31/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $336,700 · OtherORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $232,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATIONVESTERHEIM MUSEUM: $65,000 · Other+53 more: $1,185,727 · Other+53 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $900,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER+3 more: $44,000 · HealthSAMSAT: $169,595 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNational Nordic Museum: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,491 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDSPORTS: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $46,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NW MONTANA: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsKALISPELL PEEWEE BASEBALL INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFLATHEAD COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE INC: $19,540 · Public Safety & DisasterFriends of Bigfork Fire Department: $18,000 · Public Safety & DisasterComfort Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF SMITH VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterEagle Mount: $50,000 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBIGFORK PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $5,125 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $15,578 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MONTANA VETERANS STAND DOWN: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVISION GUIDE DOGS LLC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$1,944,427Health$944,000Arts & Culture$265,086Recreation & Sports$231,000Public Safety & Disaster$152,540Philanthropy$92,625Human Services$75,578

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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $900,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMSAT: $169,595 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLATHEAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIGFORK FOOD BANK INC: $59,332 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetKIDSPORTS: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEagle Mount: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $46,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $40,600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLATHEAD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF FERNDALE MT FIRE: $35,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetNORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KALISPELL INC: $33,230 over 5y, 17% of budgetBIGFORK LADIES SERVICE CLUB: $30,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF NW MONTANA: $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAID THE SILENT: $27,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLATHEAD COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE INC: $19,540 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of Bigfork Fire Department: $18,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetKENDALL COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURE AND EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $17,260 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,777 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $15,578 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MONTANA VETERANS STAND DOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetComfort Volunteer Fire Department: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Nordic Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SMITH VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetL'ARCHE JACKSONVILLE INC: $9,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA OIL MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $6,325 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBIGFORK PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $5,125 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIGFORK ACES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 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 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 KIDSPORTS ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDUP FOR SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Whitefish Community F…First Interstate Banc…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Roundup for Safety IncMontana Community Fou…Oro y Plata FoundationHeadwaters Health Fou…Town Pump Charitable …The Susan Kay Pederso…Perry & Ruby Stevens …The Applied Materials…Gianforte Family Char…
Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fred L Hartley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred L Hartley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Fred L Hartley Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fred L Hartley Family Foundation 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 91 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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