Does James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, The Angora Ridge Foundation, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.

James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner

James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner at a glance

· Private foundation

James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$353k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$192kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kArts & Culture$109kEnvironment$93kRecreation & Sports$82kYouth Development$80kCrime & Legal$67kHealth$60kOther$0

02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k60 grants · $132k
$10k–50k6 grants · $71k
$50k–250k1 grant · $150k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROLLINS FIRE FOUNDATION	$150,000
FILM INDEPENDENT	$15,750
ROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMP	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
SAFE PASSAGE FOR CHILDREN OF MN	$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$10,000
HOPE ON THE ROW	$8,000
MALARIA CONSORTIUM	$5,700
NATE CHUTE FOUNDATION	$5,000
SWAN VALLEY CONNECTIONS	$5,000
FLATHEAD FOOD BANK	$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME	$5,000
CENTR FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE	$5,000
SPARROW'S NEST	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$730k · 75 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$730k

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+15%

Still filing today

67%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

SP
Safe Passage for Children of Minnesota
6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +126%
NM
NORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +105%
LC
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +41%

Funded once

MS
MONTANA STATE UNIVERISTY OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS
one grant, 2020 · $11k
RF
Reach Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $8k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals

Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc

The mission of the rocky mountain elk foundation (rmef) is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage. our mission includes four core programs; land protection and access, hunting heritage, habitat…

Animals

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health

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

Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Foundation Fka the Blanton Harrell Foundation. 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

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 159 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

86/88

Grantees still filing

63/88

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$697,110Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Crime & Legal$62,300Recreation & Sports$44,950Human Services$41,790Health$41,650Environment$40,175

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

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 Foundation IncMT39.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Selah Charitable Trust · Mgdc Apgar Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Treacy Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Floyd 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 James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

17report 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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