· Private foundation
Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of HERB WALTERMIRE COMM ENHANCEMENT FNDT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACE PLACE | $13,338 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CASCADE | $10,000 |
| HEISEY YOUTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HELENA | $10,000 |
| KAIROS YOUTH SERVICES | $5,087 |
| CASA CAN CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE NETWORK | $5,000 |
| FARMER IN THE DELL OF GREAT FALLS | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH | $5,000 |
| LEWIS AND CLARK FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +13%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS4× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +90%
- GFGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF BIG SKY COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $10k
- OIOPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -6%
- CCCASCADE COUNTY JUVENILE DRUG COURTone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
A christian organization committed to caring for the hungry, hurting, and homeless of north central montana.
It is the mission of the great falls children's receiving home to provide a temporary home for abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless children. the receiving home will provide shelter, food, clothing, warmth, love and understanding. it…
The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Family promise of gallatin valley in montana is a non-profit organization working with our community to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. we provide prevention services before families reach a…
Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
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…
The center for restorative youth justice (cryj) works to actively engage youth, victimes, families, communities in restorative programming that interrupts cycles of harm. our programs create opportunities for at-risk youth to deepen…
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kairos Youth Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING ↗
- Who funds SPARK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds PEACE PLACE ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KAIROS YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH 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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · United Way of Cascade County · Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Oakland Family Foundation · Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co · Otto Bremer Trust · 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 Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc 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.