· Private foundation
James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOURO COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| BENEFIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $16,000 |
| WEISSMAN HOOD INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION AKA SITKA CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGY | $5,000 |
| GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| CORVALLIS HOUSING FIRST | $1,500 |
| LINCOLN CITY COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| BALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME | $1,500 |
| MACLEAN-CAMERON ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS | $1,000 |
| GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA | $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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE5× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
- BHBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +25%
- TCTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GFGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +32%
- PGPARIS GIBSON SQUARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +121%
- MRMISSOURI RIVER OPEN LAND PRESERVATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
To connect people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Falls Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Providence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 32 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 UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS HOMELESS SHELTER COALITION ↗
- Who funds PARIS GIBSON SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds Great Falls Police Community Foundation ↗
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Davidson Family Foundation · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Robert F & Frances J Jorgensen Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Hampton-Collins Mem Fdn Irr Tua · Oakland Family Foundation · Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co · Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc
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 M & Frances M Wylder Foundation 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.
- Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition — 11% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% 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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