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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.

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$184kReligion$138kHealth$65kArts & Culture$45kHuman Services$28kSocial Science$10kEnvironment$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER$1,500
LINCOLN CITY COMMUNITY CENTER$1,500
CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME$1,500
MACLEAN-CAMERON ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER$1,000
ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA$1,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS$1,000
GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CORVALLIS HOUSING FIRST: $2k → 18%GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 14%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$455k · 13 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$455k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+121%

Still filing today

38%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
  • BH
    BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • TC
    TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • GF
    GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • PG
    PARIS GIBSON SQUARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +121%
  • PG
    PARIS GIBSON SQUARE MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Scenic Montana Trails
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4
Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation

The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities

Health
5
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
6
Colt Family Foundation Montana
Philanthropy
7
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
8
Idaho Falls Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation
Human Services
10
Community Foundation of Grand Forks East Grand Forks and Region

To connect people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
11
Great Mountain Forest Corporation
Philanthropy
12
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Falls Community Food Bank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 32 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $136,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY MONTANA: $123,176 · OtherUNIVERSITY MONTANAIndividual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOURO COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $30,000 · OtherTOURO COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE+18 more: $42,000 · Other+18 moreUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureBALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $12,000 · Human ServicesCORVALLIS HOMELESS SHELTER COALITION: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS: $2,000 · Religion
Other$373,176Education$55,000Arts & Culture$36,000Health$35,000Human Services$13,500Philanthropy$9,000Religion$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCORVALLIS HOMELESS SHELTER COALITION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreat Falls Police Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • 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 CORVALLIS HOMELESS SHELTER COALITION ↗
  • Who funds BALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARIS GIBSON SQUARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ENERGY SHARE OF MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Great Falls Police Community Foundation ↗

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.

Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Davidson Family Found…Alice Lee Lund Charit…Town Pump Charitable …Robert F & Frances J …Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Hampton-Collins Mem F…Oakland Family Founda…Boe Brothers Foundati…Zeller-Knowles Founda…
Montana Community Foundation IncMT25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M & Frances M Wylder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition: 11% of income from government
  • Neskowin Coast Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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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How do I get to James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation 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 32 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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