· Private foundation
Ila B Dousman Fund 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: 74% of ILA B DOUSMAN FUND 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 $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREAT FISH CHALLENGE - MULTIPLE 501(C)(3) | $30,250 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MONTANA | $3,000 |
| SACRED SITES RESEARCH | $1,500 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (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. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 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 FY2025, 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
- AOACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
- MIMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +252%
- SKSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +41%
- NVNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +113%
- IDINTERMOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Ione grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
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 montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
The objective of the foundation is relief of conditions of poverty dependency, unemployment, and underemployment in and around the community of flathead county, montana.
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.
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…
Provide food for individuals in need
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.
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.
To promote and improve the health of the medically underserved population in the service area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitefish Community Foundation Inc and 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sacred Sites Research Inc ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds RIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY I ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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: 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
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 Ila B Dousman Fund 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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