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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.

$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$495kFood & Nutrition$273kEnvironment$251kArts & Culture$206kCommunity Improvement$194kHuman Services$127kCivil Rights$127kHealth$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $172,577 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $162,577 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Root Cellar Foods$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%North Valley Food Bank: $30k → 11%Center Pole: $24k → 23%Boys & Girls Club of N Chey: $16k → 10%North Valley Food Bank: $25k → 11%Boys & Girls Club of N Chey: $14k → 10%Boys & Girls Club of N Chey: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$958k · 11 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
21

Total granted

$958k
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+16%

Still filing today

91%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SG
    SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $202k · revenue +8%
  • PI
    PIEGAN INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +105%
  • FB
    FAST BLACKFEET
    3× · 2020–2023 · $128k · revenue +411%

Funded once

  • CS
    CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • BT
    BLACKFEET TRIBE
    one grant, 2023 · $140k
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Chief Dull Knife College

Provide educational and cultural leadership to the residents of the northern cheyenne reservation and surrounding communities.

—
3
Mountain Plains Community Development Corporation

Mountain Plains Community Development Corporation is a private, nonprofit organization, founded in 2022 for the purpose of strengthening the health of Native communities and economies in the Mountain Plains region of Wyoming, Montana,…

Community Improvement
4
Northern Cheyenne Food Pantry

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council

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…

Animals
6
Cankdeska Cikana Community College

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…

Education
7
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc

The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.

Environment
9
Center for Popular Research Education and Policy

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.

Education
10
Northern Colorado Food Cluster

To create a healthy community through a resilient, local food system and to support and promote local food production, distribution, and consumption in northern colorado.

—
11
Feed Seven Generations

FEED Seven Generations is dedicated to revitalizing the health and wellness of Tribal communities by amplifying Native voices reconnecting ancestral food and health practices and advancing sustainable land and water stewardship. Through…

Food & Nutrition
12
Tanana Chiefs Conference

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Messengers for Health; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI: $200,000 · OtherCONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAIBLACKFEET TRIBE: $140,000 · OtherBLACKFEET TRIBEPIEGAN INSTITUTE: $129,512 · OtherPIEGAN INSTITUTETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION I…BEAUCHAMP KITCHEN: $35,000 · Other+10 more: $114,000 · Other+10 moreSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $202,280 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION …NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $55,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD B…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC: $42,820 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…Center Pole: $24,000 · Human ServicesCenter PoleBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $111,908 · EducationBLACKFEET COM…SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $50,000 · EducationSALISH KOOTEN…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…+1 more: $5,750 · EducationARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $94,000 · Community ImprovementARLEE COMMU…LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 · Community ImprovementLAKE COUNTY…PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $29,000 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOOR…THE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,750 · Community ImprovementTHE PEOPLES…Piikani Lodge Health Institute: $78,250 · Arts & CulturePiikani L…Blackfeet Eco Knowledge: $70,000 · Arts & CultureBlackfeet…AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFAST BLACKFEET: $127,500 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionGREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR: $21,750 · Public Benefit
Other$788,512Human Services$324,100Education$217,658Community Improvement$193,750Arts & Culture$153,750Food & Nutrition$140,000Public Benefit$21,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $202,280 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPIEGAN INSTITUTE: $129,512 over 5y, 13% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $127,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetBLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $111,908 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $94,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPiikani Lodge Health Institute: $78,250 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBlackfeet Eco Knowledge: $70,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC: $42,820 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $29,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCenter Pole: $24,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRED PAINT CREEK COOPERATIVE INC: $23,250 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR: $21,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESOURCES ORG: $11,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCENTRO DE COMUNIDAD Y JUSTICIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLOWER BRULE COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC: $5,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER MENTORING: $5,750 over 1y, 11% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Nations Develop…Montana Community Fou…The Kendeda FundSeventh Generation Fu…Oro y Plata FoundationThe High Stakes Found…Montana Healthcare Fo…Charlotte y Martin Fo…Otto Bremer TrustMorton H Meyerson Fam…Gianforte Family Char…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…
First Nations Development InstituteCO33.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hopa Mountain Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hopa Mountain Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Hopa Mountain Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hopa Mountain Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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