· Private foundation
Galen and Karla Zerbe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MONTANA | $15,000 |
| VALLEY COUNTY HOPE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| VALLEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| VALLEY COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| BIG SKY BRAVERY | $5,000 |
| PORCUPINE BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
| MILK RIVER INC | $5,000 |
| TWO RIVERS ECONOMIC GROWTH | $5,000 |
| KINGDOM OVERFLOW MINITRIES | $5,000 |
| LOVE & SONSHINE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| WOLF POINT POUND PUPPIES | $5,000 |
| CHASE HAWKS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LIVE LIKE JACE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MT4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF CASA BERNABE2× · 2021–2022 · $16k · revenue +21%
- PIPROVISION INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- VCVALLEY COUNTY FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $8k
- LCLUSTRE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $8k
- VVVALLEY VIEW HOMEone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +14%
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.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Valley Mission currently operates a Food Pantry. New services offered in the new facility will inlcude an 18-bed emergency shelter, commercial kitchen/dining area, office space, medical clinic, 16-bed transformational living program (6…
Our mission at valkyrie ranch is to support special operations veterans and their families with healing, connection, and lifelong care while also giving back to the ranching community around us. through outdoor retreats, recovery programs,…
The montana veterans foundation is designed to assist homeless veterans (or veterans at risk of homelessness) by improving their quality of life and by providing comprehensive support which enables veterans to achieve greater…
To provide an environment for women to find their full potential through jesus christ, and to become role models through their faith that will continue on in their homes, churches, and community
Montana on a Mission exists to encourage people to live out the love of jesus christ.
The center for restorative youth justice (cryj) works to actively engage youth, victimes, families, communities in restorative programming that interrupts cycles of harm. our programs create opportunities for at-risk youth to deepen…
Montana rescue mission began in 1948 and was incorporated in 1957 to serve the homeless population in billings, mt and the surrounding area. our core values are to treat all people with dignity, compassion, and respect. our programs and…
The mission of the organization is to provide life-sustaining services and programsfocusing on dignity, empowerment and self-sufficiency. the organization provides the onlyyear-round overnight service center for the homeless community in…
Our mission is to help the less fortunate people in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Overflow Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MT ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA BERNABE ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM OVERFLOW MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROVISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE AND SONSHINE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MILK RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT PECK FINE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VIEW HOME ↗
- Who funds CHASE HAWKS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Caring Hands Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE JACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Live Heregive Here-A Valley County Foundation · Harnish Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Galen and Karla Zerbe 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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