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Knight Foundation CO M Scholz
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Knight Foundation CO M Scholz’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eagle Mount | $10,000 |
| Soldier's Chapel | $6,000 |
| Bozeman Senior Center | $6,000 |
| Gallatin Valley Food Bank | $6,000 |
| Cancer Support Community | $5,000 |
| Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter | $4,500 |
| Family Promise of Gallatin Valley | $3,000 |
| Warriors and Quiet Waters | $2,500 |
| Big Sky Community Housing Trus | $2,500 |
| Montana Hope Project | $2,000 |
| AWARE | $2,000 |
| Morning Star Learning Center | $2,000 |
| Wellness in Action | $2,000 |
| Gallatin River Task Force | $2,000 |
| Big Sky Community Library | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EMEagle Mount9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +40%
- HOHEART OF THE VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +56%
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- HHRDCone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
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…
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,…
To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.
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.
The purposes of the corporation shall be specifically to operate a statewide coordinated health information exchange and related services to enhance clinical care in the community and to improve and promote public health care in the…
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
Big sky owners association was organized in 1972 for the purposes set forth in the articles of incorporation which include the management, operation, and maintenance of the facilities of big sky, montana for the health, safety, enjoyment,…
To promote, stimulate, and advance the general welfare and economic development for billings, yellowstone county, and the state of montana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Sky Skating & Hockey Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST BSCHT ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
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: Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Rieschel Foundation · Prometheus Charitable Trust · Michael D Arneson and Susan H Arneson · Harold W Sweatt Foundation · Glore Fund · The Carter Family 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 Knight Foundation CO M Scholz 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.
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