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Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k114 grants · $432k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $1,014,059 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY | $759,321 |
| GREATER IMPACT INC | $715,324 |
| ST ANDREW SCHOOL | $710,160 |
| OPTIONS WOMEN'S CLINIC | $509,335 |
| HOPE CENTER MINISTRIES - BUTTE | $506,856 |
| MONTANA HIGHER ED STUD ASSIS CORP | $492,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $444,250 |
| MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $398,391 |
| PACIFIC NW ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE | $358,412 |
| MONTANA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $302,531 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $273,093 |
| COMMUNIO | $260,578 |
| THE MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $257,694 |
| YOUTH ENTERPRENEURS INC - MONTANA | $243,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
322 repeat relationships — 176 still active in FY2024, 146 since wound down; 78 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +194%
- MSMontana State University Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +315%
- CBCHILD BRIDGE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +324%
Funded once
- BCBILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- SASTUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- CCOMMUNIOgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $158k · revenue +250%
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.
Goodwater Ministries exists to see the spiritual beauty become a reflection of the physical beauty in the Flathead Valley. Specifically Whitefish, MT. We focus on three areas: 1. Church planting 2. Leadership development and training 3.…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Ensuring that christian education can thrive in montana by supporting billings christian school and montana bible college
Our mission is to end hunger in the valley county, montana area through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. our vision is a montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.
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…
A vital community in Christ, seeking to connect students at Montana State University with God's grace and call to lead lives of spiritual and ethical integrity in and for the world.
For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…
Providing religious service for adults and youths
St. John's Lutheran Ministries is a community of diverse people sharing God's healing presence. Our mission is to provide living opportunities within nurturing environments of hope, dignity & love.
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
305 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. 305 of the 668 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Montana Family Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN ↗
- Who funds GREATER IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF HELENA DBA OPTIONS WOMENS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds The Her Campaign ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHERS IN THE FIELD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Gianforte Family Charitable Trust 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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