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Frisbie Morbella Foundation at a glance

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Frisbie Morbella Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$145kEducation$140kArts & Culture$52kHealth$47kCommunity Improvement$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEnvironment$25kAnimals$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clark Fork Valley Hospital Foundation$7,250
Flat Iron Quilting Guils$2,500
Thompson Falls School District #2$1,720
Sanders County Historical Society$1,200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TROUT CREEK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOC: $6k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #3: $52k → 17%SANDERS COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN: $25k → 17%School District 2: $25k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SD2: $25k → 17%CITY OF THOMPSON FALLS: $25k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2: $25k → 17%CITY OF THOMPSON FALLS: $25k → 17%SD 2: $25k → 17%CITY OF THOMPSON FALLS: $21k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SD2: $15k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2: $15k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 17%THOMPSON RIVER ANIMAL CARE SHELTER: $10k → 17%SD2: $10k → 17%SANDERS COUNTY: $10k → 17%CLARK FORK VALLEY HOSP FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SD2: $10k → 17%School District 2: $10k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SD2: $10k → 17%THOMPSON RIVER ANIMAL CARE SHELTER: $10k → 17%SANDERS COUNTY: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK: $10k → 17%Sanders County Coalition: $8k → 17%Thompson Falls Public Library: $8k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS PICKLBALL CLUB: $7k → 17%CLARK FORK VALLEY HOSP FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS FILM & THEATER FOUND: $5k → 17%TRACS: $5k → 17%Community Harvest Food Bank: $5k → 17%TRACS: $5k → 17%CLARK FORK VALLEY HOSP FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%TRACS: $5k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2: $3k → 17%THOMPSON FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 17%School District 2: $3k → 17%FLAT IRON QUILT GUILD: $3k → 17%SANDERS COUNTY DOG TRAINING CLUB: $3k → 17%Flat Iron Quilting Guild: $3k → 17%Project Ascent: $3k → 17%Community Harvest Food Bank: $3k → 17%FLAT IRON QUILTING GUILD: $3k → 17%FLAT IRON QUILTING GUILD: $3k → 17%CANCER NETWORK OF SANDERS COUNTY: $10k → 17%Clark Fork Valley Hospital Foundation: $7k → 17%CANCER NETWORK SANDERS COUNTY: $5k → 17%Clark Fork Enrichment Corp: $5k → 17%CLARK FORK ENRICHMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 17%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$351k · 14 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$351k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-19%
+3%

Still filing today

36%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Community ImprovementHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF THOMPSON FALLS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $72k
  • TF
    THOMPSON FALLS SD2
    3× · 2019–2021 · $61k
  • TF
    THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2
    3× · 2022–2024 · $43k

Funded once

  • TF
    THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #3
    2× · 2022–2023 · $52k
  • SD
    School District 2
    one grant, 2018 · $39k
  • S2
    SD 2
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
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
Central Range Pickleball Club
Recreation & Sports
2
Scenic Montana Trails
—
3
Boulder County Injured and Fallen Officer Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
5
Idaho Operation Lifesaver
—
6
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
8
Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation
Human Services
9
Tamarack Enviromental Protection Association

To promote envirnoment of valley county idaho

—
10
Northern Colorado Clay Crushers
Recreation & Sports
11
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
12
Richland Creek Top Guns
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sander County Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Thompson Falls Pickleball Club. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF THOMPSON FALLS: $72,000 · OtherCITY OF THOMPSON FALLSTHOMPSON FALLS SD2: $61,430 · OtherTHOMPSON FALLS SD2THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #3: $52,000 · OtherTHOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #3THOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2: $43,424 · OtherTHOMPSON FALLS SCHOOL DIST #2School District 2: $38,577 · OtherSchool District 2SD 2: $35,172 · OtherSD 2CLARK FORK VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $29,250 · OtherCLARK FORK VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCTHOMPSON FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,208 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK: $17,500 · OtherFLAT IRON QUILTING GUILD: $17,500 · Other+11 more: $48,714 · Other+11 moreSander County Community Development Corporation: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTROUT CREEK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $6,150 · Community ImprovementThompson River Animal Care Shelter: $20,000 · AnimalsCancer Network of Sanders County: $15,000 · HealthClark Fork Enrichment Corp: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT ASCENT: $4,100 · Youth DevelopmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 · Religion
Other$457,775Community Improvement$31,150Animals$20,000Health$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$4,100Religion$500

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 budgetCLARK FORK VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $29,250 over 4y, 23% of budgetSander County Community Development Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetThompson River Animal Care Shelter: $20,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCancer Network of Sanders County: $15,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTHOMPSON FALLS PICKLEBALL CLUB: $7,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $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 CLARK FORK VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sander County Community Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Thompson River Animal Care Shelter ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Network of Sanders County ↗
  • Who funds Clark Fork Enrichment Corp ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSON FALLS PICKLEBALL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds TROUT CREEK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ASCENT ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 29 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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