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Heck 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $4k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stillwater Christian School | $60,000 |
| Hope Pregnancy Ministries | $2,000 |
| FVCC Foundation | $1,000 |
| Alzheimer Association | $750 |
| Easthaven Baptist Church | $500 |
| Kalispell Lakers Baseball Association | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your 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 +80% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SCStillwater Christian School8× · 2017–2024 · $413k · revenue +308%
- FFFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $46k · revenue +8%
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- WVWest Valley Fire & Rescue5× · 2020–2024 · $1k
- MWMontana West Economic Developmentone grant, 2017 · $700
- GHGLACIER HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUBgraduated6× · 2019–2024 · $500 · revenue +37%
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.
Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise…
To promote the economic vitality of the city of whitefish, montana, and enhance the community's quality of life.
To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.
The objective of the foundation is relief of conditions of poverty dependency, unemployment, and underemployment in and around the community of flathead county, montana.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.
The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.
To champion and empower our local businesses, foster community engagement, and drive sustainable growth in buffalo, wy. we are dedicated to preserving our town's unique heritage while advancing economic opportunities, supporting local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flathead Rotary Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stillwater Christian School. 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 34 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 Stillwater Christian School ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY MINISTRIES OF KALISPELL MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF GROUP DBA GOOD GRIEF CAMP ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds TREASURE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD ROTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLACIER HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds United Way ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD CANCER AID SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD CARE ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Heck 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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