· Private foundation
Hauser Lake Home
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $513k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC | $100,000 |
| MONTANA COUNCIL DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY | $56,481 |
| SPRING MEADOWS RESOURCES INC | $54,000 |
| WESTMONT | $53,000 |
| HELENA FOOD SHARE | $50,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE SHELTER | $50,000 |
| MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| THE ANGEL FUND | $50,000 |
| YWCA HELENA | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA | $40,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $7,000 |
| PLACER PANTRY | $6,000 |
| GFWC HELENA WOMENS CLUB | $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 (FY17–21, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $388k 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
- MIMONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $78k · revenue +70%
- SMSPRING MEADOW RESOURCES INC3× · 2017–2021 · $77k · revenue +39%
- WMWEST MONT2× · 2018–2021 · $74k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- RIREGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INCone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +5%
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.
Provide residential, in-home, and community-based choices for people with disabilities.
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.
Provides services for individuals with disabilities.
Valley Residential Services provides personalized support in safe, comfortable home environments for developmentally disabled individuals, residences for veterans with rehabilitation opportunities, and family assistance services.
To provide residential services which will empower persons with disabilities to live their best life possible.
Provide assistance to people with diabilities so that they can live independently.
Enhancing the lives of people with disabilities by providing innovative services that promote inclusion and self-determination.
Provide up to 24 hours a day care for disabled individuals including job training, coaching, group companion and community care for health and safety. Also provide residential services to those with disabilities requiring assisted living.
To promote and protect the legal and human rights of individuals with physical and/or mental disabilities.
Halom house, inc. is a private, non-profit residential agency supporting adults with developmental disabilities in the southern ohio area. halom house, inc. is dedicated to upholding the rights and responsibilities of every client served;…
Community living, inc. is committed to excellence and compassion in providing innovative services and opportunities for people with disabilities.
To provide services and supports, requested and designed by individuals and families who experience disabilities, resulting in choice, control, and family preservation and community inclusion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Independent Living Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salish Kootenai College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA INDEPENDENT LIVING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING MEADOW RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MONT ↗
- Who funds HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANGEL FUND ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH 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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Wall Family-Power Townsend Foundation · Helena Area Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hauser Lake Home 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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