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Ila B Dousman Fund Inc at a glance

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Ila B Dousman Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$387kPhilanthropy$59kEducation$44kHealth$21kArts & Culture$18kCivil Rights$16kCrime & Legal$11kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREAT FISH CHALLENGE - MULTIPLE 501(C)(3)$30,250
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MONTANA$3,000
ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$3,000
SACRED SITES RESEARCH$1,500
SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,500
FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,500
MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
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 (FY18–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOUNTAIN HOME: $2k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$492k · 14 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$492k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+113%

Still filing today

79%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AO
    ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • MI
    MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +252%
  • SS
    Sacred Sites Research Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +200%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +113%
  • ID
    INTERMOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY I
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
Flathead Land Trust

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…

Environment
2
Scenic Montana Trails
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3
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
4
Montana West Economic Development Foundation

The objective of the foundation is relief of conditions of poverty dependency, unemployment, and underemployment in and around the community of flathead county, montana.

Community Improvement
5
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
6
Flathead Community Foundation Inc

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…

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7
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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8
Northwest Montana Community Land Trust Inc

Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.

Housing & Shelter
9
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
10
Prickly Pear Land Trust

To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.

Environment
11
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
12
Flathead Community Health Center Inc

To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitefish Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sacred Sites Research Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 26 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREAT FISH CHALLENGE - MULTIPLE 501(C)(3): $383,000 · OtherWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREAT FISH CHALLENGE - MULTIPLE 501(C)(3)FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · Other+14 more: $43,000 · Other+14 moreWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH C…Intermountain Planned Parenthood: $20,500 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $4,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $16,250 · Civil RightsMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10,500 · Crime & LegalSacred Sites Research Inc: $4,500 · Arts & CultureALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $4,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$442,500Philanthropy$58,500Health$20,500Education$20,000Civil Rights$16,250Crime & Legal$10,500Arts & Culture$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $58,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $16,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSacred Sites Research Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY I: $3,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLATHEAD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Whitefish Community F…First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…The Angora Ridge Foun…Headwaters Health Fou…Town Pump Charitable …Tamarack Foundation I…Bayne Foundation IncRoundup for Safety IncThe Steele-Reese Foun…Treacy Foundation
Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Tamarack Foundation Inc · Bayne Foundation Inc · Roundup for Safety Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Treacy 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 Ila B Dousman Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ila B Dousman Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ila B Dousman Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ila B Dousman Fund 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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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