· Private foundation
GE McDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption | $80,110 |
| MSU Billings Foundation | $25,187 |
| Rocky Mountain College | $10,000 |
| Alberta Bair Theater | $10,000 |
| Zoo Montana | $10,000 |
| Billings Family YMCA | $10,000 |
| Community Leadership and Development Inc | $7,500 |
| Boys & Girls Club | $7,099 |
| Billings Catholic Schools Foundation | $3,250 |
| Billings Rotary Foundation | $3,150 |
| Eagle Mount Billings | $2,500 |
| Billings Public Library Foundation | $1,500 |
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $1,000 |
| Keestone Communication | $500 |
| Billings Clinic Foundation | $100 |
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 (FY19–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 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
- DTDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION7× · 2019–2025 · $543k · revenue +104%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +31%
- BFBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- RFRIMROCK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +37%
- BPBillings Public Libraryone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
Ensuring that christian education can thrive in montana by supporting billings christian school and montana bible college
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.
Based on our commitment to catholic social teaching, catholic social services of montana provides for works of advocacy, compassion, pastoral outreach, education and social justice.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Provide food for individuals in need
Empowering people to live healthy lives.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Billings Rotary Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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.
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 DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RIMROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds KEESTONE COMMUNICATION 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth 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 GE McDonald 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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