· Private foundation
James and Chloe Gilman Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of JAMES AND CHLOE GILMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTTE CENTRAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONTANA EAST-WEST SHRINE GAME | $6,000 |
| BUTTE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| 4 PAWS RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTTE | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BUTTE | $5,000 |
| ALBERT'S ANGEL FUND | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PINTLER PETS | $5,000 |
| BPOE LODGE 240 (ELKS) | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MOTHER LODE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| PAUL CLARK HOME | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SUNRISE KIWANIS CLUB OF BUTTE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 9 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 FY2024, 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
- SJST JAMES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +48%
- MTMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +113%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGONone grant, 2022 · $35k
- PCPOWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -75%
- HRHEADWATER RC&D AREA INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.
To improve community health and quality of life.
The bob marshall wilderness foundation bmwf has been serving the wilderness recreation community for over twenty 20 years by organizing and leading projects that clear trails and preserve the wilderness ecosystem by restoring damaged areas…
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
Mission: sustainable excellence in patient and resident focused care. vision: grow to become the trusted healthcare provider and employer of choice in sweet grass county.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paul Clark Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 69 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 ST JAMES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds WORLD MUSEUM OF MINING ↗
- Who funds PAUL CLARK HOME ↗
- Who funds PINTLER PETS ↗
- Who funds BUTTE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds RIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA GAELIC CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BUTTE ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Jesse A Cole MD Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 James and Chloe Gilman Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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