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Jarecki Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$163kRecreation & Sports$135kReligion$92kEducation$63kArts & Culture$32kYouth Development$26kCommunity Improvement$10kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,000
NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
FLATHEAD LAKE MUSEUM$1,000
FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
FLATHEAD LAKE INTERNATIONAL CINEMAF$1,000
MISSIONA VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS$1,000
POLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC$1,000
FLATHEAD LUTHERN BIBLE CAMP$750
POLSON LOAVES AND FISHES$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%IDAHO AVIATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%HEALTHY ACRES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES F: $1k → 9%SOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT: $2k → 9%RAF ENDOWMENT FUND: $2k → 10%FLATHEAD VALLEY COMM COLLEGE: $11k → 11%MONTANA VETERANS HOME ACTIVITIES: $1k → 16%OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 18%HAITI SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%OSLA STUDENT LOAN SERVICES: $5k → 16%SRM ENDOWMENT FUND: $1k → 15%NELNET US DEPT OF EDUCATION: $6k → 12%UTAH BACKCOUNTRY PILOTS ASSOC: $3k → 6%NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR MONTANA HISTORY: $2k → 9%RAF ENDOWMENT FUND: $1k → 10%FLATHEAD LUTHERN BIBLE CAMP: $10k → 11%OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 18%MONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%PROVIDENCE MONTANA HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $2k → 9%FLATHEAD LUTHERN BIBLE CAMP: $5k → 11%OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 18%Flathead Luthern Bible Camp: $2k → 11%Flathead Luthern Bible Camp: $2k → 11%MISSION VALLEY AQUATICS: $113k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $106k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $32k → 18%MONTANA PILOTS ASSOC: $10k → 11%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $20k → 18%MONTANA VETERANS HOME MEM FOUNDATIO: $5k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $11k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $10k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $9k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $8k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $7k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $7k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $7k → 18%MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $4k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $4k → 18%Good Shepherd Lutheran Church: $4k → 18%MISSION VALLEY CHRISTION ACADEMY: $3k → 18%Mission Valley Ice Arena: $3k → 18%GREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 18%Greater Polson Community Foundation: $1k → 18%MISSION VALLEY LIVE: $1k → 18%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTY: $25k → 18%BIG FORK WRESTLING CLUB: $2k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
WI
NY
OR
PA
UT
CO
NM
KS
TN
OK
GA
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$290k · 25 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
35

Total granted

$290k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+5%

Still filing today

32%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MV
    MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN
    4× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +382%
  • OR
    OWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • FV
    FLATHEAD VALLEY COMM COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • MP
    MONTANA PILOTS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
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
2
Montana Conservation Society

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…

Environment
3
Montana Association of Conservation Districts

To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.

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4
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

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.

Environment
5
Montana Medical Association

To serve its members as an advocate for the medical profession, quality patient care and the health of all montana citizens.

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6
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
7
Montana Natural History Center

The montana natural history center promotes appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of nature and the environment through education.

Environment
8
Scenic Montana Trails
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9
Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund

The montana conservation voters education fund educates, engages, and empowers all montanans to protect our clean air, clean water, public lands, and democracy.

Environment
10
Montana Hospital Association

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.

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11
Montana Chamber of Commerce

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,…

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12
World Museum of Mining

None

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Stockgrowers Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $71,343 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCHBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTY: $25,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAKE COUNTYFLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $20,950 · OtherFLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMPFLATHEAD VALLEY COMM COLLEGE: $10,850 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,350 · OtherMONTANA PILOTS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · OtherNAVIENT: $10,000 · OtherIDAHO AVIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+52 more: $82,360 · Other+52 moreGREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $160,896 · PhilanthropyGREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…MISSION VALLEY AQUATICS: $113,500 · Recreation & SportsMISSION VALLEY AQUATICSMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureMISSION VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS: $5,500 · Arts & CulturePOLSON FLATHEAD LAKE MUSEUM: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $700 · Arts & CultureMISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN: $9,950 · EducationPOLSON SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,700 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400 · HealthSOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT: $1,700 · Food & Nutrition
Other$250,853Philanthropy$160,896Recreation & Sports$113,500Arts & Culture$15,950Education$10,450Health$2,100Food & Nutrition$1,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $160,896 over 8y, 33% of budgetMISSION VALLEY AQUATICS: $113,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetMISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN: $9,950 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS: $5,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetOWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR RANGE MANAGEMENT: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOLSON FLATHEAD LAKE MUSEUM: $1,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPOLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetERIE ART MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLSON SCHOLARSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY LAKE COUNTY AREA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Gianforte Family Char…First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…The McKnight Foundati…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gianforte Family Charitable TrustMT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jarecki Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jarecki Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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