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Game Night Foundation at a glance

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Game Night 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.

$127k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$80kRecreation & Sports$65kCommunity Improvement$25kInternational$23kHuman Services$20kEducation$14kHealth$7kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INCLUSION MATTERS$25,000
SAN DIEGO BALLET$25,000
SIERRA REPERATORY THEATRE$20,000
A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION - HAI$19,139
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$11,800
GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MONTANA - ZOOTO$5,200
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$5,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE$4,000
THE DETRIOT CREATIVITY PROJECT$1,000
AUTISM SPEAKS$1,000
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 (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 9%WE SPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 14%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 5 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$158k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • IM
    Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • SD
    San Diego Ballet
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • AH
    A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAY DETROIT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • BC
    BIGFORK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Scenic Montana Trails
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3
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
4
Nashville Ballet

Nashville ballet's mission is to create, perform, teach, and promote dance as an essential and inspiring element of our community. we fill that mission by offering a diverse range of dance programs in our season repertory, educating…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Ballet Association

Sf ballet's mission is to shape ballet's future by creating works of (see sch. o) uncompromising excellence, identifying and developing extraordinary talent, and serving as a catalys for cultural transformation. we blend innovation with…

Arts & Culture
7
Ballet Fantastique

Dance education and performance

Education
8
High Performance Dance Theatre

Our mission is to combine dance and modern technology to provide high-quality training and productions while increasing the communitys knowledge of the arts

Arts & Culture
9
Ballet Elite
Arts & Culture
10
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
11
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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12
Rocky Mountain Pathways
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Montana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Diego Ballet: $50,000 · OtherSan Diego BalletBIGFORK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING A: $5,500 · OtherBIGFORK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMIN…SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MONTANA - ZOOTO: $5,200 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MONTANA - ZO…THE B CLUB - BLACKBURN COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherTHE B CLUB - BLACKBURN COLLEGE+1 more: $1,000 · OtherInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsInclusion Matters by Shane…SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA I…SAY DETROIT: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSAY DETROITA HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION: $23,231 · Housing & ShelterA HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUN…SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA REPE…ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $4,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNT…GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…WESPARK INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $14,300 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$66,700Recreation & Sports$55,000Housing & Shelter$48,231Arts & Culture$24,000Human Services$21,000Education$14,300Health$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSan Diego Ballet: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION: $23,231 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $14,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Game Night Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Game Night Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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