· Private foundation
Jarecki Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH | $11,100 |
| UTAH BACKCOUNTRY PILOTS ASSOC | $2,500 |
| GREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,150 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MONTANA HISTORY | $2,000 |
| MONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT | $1,700 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAKE INTERNATIONAL CINEMAF | $1,000 |
| POLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC | $1,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAKE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| MISSIONA VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FLATHEAD LUTHERN BIBLE CAMP | $750 |
| MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES | $500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- MVMISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN4× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +382%
- OROWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- FVFLATHEAD VALLEY COMM COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $11k
- MPMONTANA PILOTS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $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 montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
The corporation's purposes shall include, but not be limited to conducting or supporting programs to promote and advocate for land and water conservation issues and to educate the public regarding the conservation related issues addressed…
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
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 serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The montana natural history center promotes appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of nature and the environment through education.
The montana conservation voters education fund educates, engages, and empowers all montanans to protect our clean air, clean water, public lands, and democracy.
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.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Stockgrowers Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Owl Research Institute Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 72 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 GREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY AQUATICS ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds POLSON FLATHEAD LAKE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC 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: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The McKnight Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Jarecki 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.
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.