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Kampgrounds of America 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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.

Recreation & Sports$228kEnvironment$171kAnimals$50kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$15kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,259
Median grant
4
States reached
$323k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yellowstone Ice Foundation$50,000
KOA Care Camps$40,000
Special Olympics Montana$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Operation Juliet$10,000
Midwest Adaptive Sports$4,259
Riverbend Environmental Education Center$4,259
Riverstone Health Foundation$1,000
Real Billings FC$1,000
Eagle Mount Billings$900
Salvation Army$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Midwest Adaptive Sports: $4k → 15%Riverstone Health Foundation: $1k → 9%Adult Resource Alliance of Yellowstone County: $1k → 9%Eagle Mount Billings: $900 → 9%Big Sky Senior Services Inc: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$385k · 9 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$385k
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $142k · revenue +17%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +30%
  • BC
    BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • ZI
    ZooMontana Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • MS
    Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +59%
  • GI
    GLACIER INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Billings Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.

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2
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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3
Visit Big Sky

As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…

Community Improvement
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 Amateur Sports Inc Dba Big Sky State Games

Montana amateur sports, inc. is a non-profit organization established in billings, mt. it was established to provide quality competitions and programs that inspire healthy and active lifestyles for all ages and abilities. these events…

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
Scenic Montana Trails
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8
Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement
9
Yellowstone Mountain Club Public Safety and Privacy Inc

Yellowstone mountain club public safety and privacy, inc. was incorporated for the purpose of providing full time, year-round public health and safety services for all persons and organizations located on, within, and, in some cases, even…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
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
11
A Better Big Sky

A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…

Community Improvement
12
Yellowstone Health Partnership

The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Juliet. 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%19%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%19%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%21%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
11%
2,992/27,271

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KOA Care Camps — $86,995 · OtherKOA Care CampsIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherEducation Foundation — $10,000 · OtherOperation Juliet — $10,000 · Other+25 more — $42,784 · Other+25 moreOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $142,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INCGLACIER INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentGLACIER INSTITUTE INC+1 more — $4,259 · EnvironmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTA…YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsYELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDA…+3 more — $4,500 · Recreation & SportsZooMontana Inc — $50,000 · AnimalsMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $3,759 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY CAREER & COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AME MONTANA ASSOCIATION — $1,900 · Youth DevelopmentBILLINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Membership BenefitLast Best Future — $15,000 · Community ImprovementBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$219,779Environment$171,259Recreation & Sports$129,500Animals$50,000Youth Development$36,659Membership Benefit$20,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $142,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetZooMontana Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc — $31,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLACIER INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLast Best Future — $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Juliet — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDWEST ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — $4,259 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $3,759 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID YELLOWSTONE VALLEY — $2,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PARKS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CAREER & COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AME MONTANA ASSOCIATION — $1,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL BILLINGS FC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBeartooth Trails — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD START INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKFAST EXCHANGE CLUB OF BILLINGS — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

First Interstate Banc…Donald & Carol Robert…Town Pump Charitable …Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Scl Health - MontanaThe Mary Alice Fortin…Fair View FoundationBrosovich Family Foun…Charles M Bair Family…Treacy FoundationDru Allison Cederberg…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT37.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Treacy Foundation · Dru Allison Cederberg 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 Kampgrounds of America 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    6report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kampgrounds of America Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kampgrounds of America 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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