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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 you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of FRISBIE MORBELLA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$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

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:

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

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

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

  • 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

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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sander County Community Development Corporation and 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 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 20172026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · OtherFLAT IRON QUILTING GUILD — $17,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Frisbie Morbella 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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, 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.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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