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Hopa Mountain Inc
Hopa Mountain invests in rural and tribal citizen leaders, adults and youth who areimproving education, ecological health, and economic development.
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.
The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $172,577 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $162,577 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Root Cellar Foods | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SGSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC4× · 2019–2022 · $202k · revenue +8%
- PIPIEGAN INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +105%
- FBFAST BLACKFEET3× · 2020–2023 · $128k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- CSCONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAIone grant, 2023 · $200k
- BTBLACKFEET TRIBEone grant, 2023 · $140k
- BEBlackfeet Eco Knowledgeone grant, 2023 · $70k
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.
To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…
To ensure the most vulnerable and at-risk families on the northern cheyenne reservation are safe and have their basic needs take care of by the distribution of food
The alaska nannut co-management council (ancc) was established to represent the collective alaska native voice in polar bear co-management. ancc is a tribally authorized organization with membership consisting of the 15 tribes in alaska…
To provide higher education opportunities, at the community college level, including vocational and technical training. as a tribal community college, we emphasize the teaching and learning of dakota culture and language toward the…
Provide educational and cultural leadership to the residents of the northern cheyenne reservation and surrounding commmunities.
The mission of the Center for Popular Research, Education and Policy is to increase the supply of local, healthy, affordable food on the Wind River Reservation by supporting reservation-based food production.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Tanana Chiefs Conference provides a unified voice in advancing sovereign tribal governments through the promotion of physical and mental wellness, education, socioeconomic development, and culture of the interior Alaska native people.
Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch…
The Buffalo Nations Grasslands Alliance's mission is to ensure that the Native nations in the US portion of the Northern Great Plains have the technical and financial resources to plan and act on the vision for their traditional lands and…
The Chugach Regional Resources Commission (the Commission) was established for the purpose of providing formal advocacy to manage natural resources in ways consistent with the cultural traditions of the Chugach Native people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Messengers for Health and the most unlike its peers is Friends Forever Mentoring. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 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 SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEGAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAST BLACKFEET ↗
- Who funds BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Piikani Lodge Health Institute ↗
- Who funds Blackfeet Eco Knowledge ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Center Pole ↗
- Who funds RED PAINT CREEK COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES ORG ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE COMUNIDAD Y JUSTICIA INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOREVER MENTORING ↗
- Who funds LOWER BRULE COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
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 Nations Development Institute · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · Oro y Plata Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Otto Bremer Trust · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 Hopa Mountain 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.
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