· Private foundation
Leroy and Claris Strand Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUDITH BASIN COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| HIGHWOOD RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| GERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| GERALDINE YOUTH SPORTS INC | $7,500 |
| GEYSER SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER | $7,500 |
| GEYSER COMMUNITY CLUB | $7,500 |
| FORT BENTON MEMORIAL AMBULANCE | $6,000 |
| SPIRE HEALTH INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| BASIN WELLNESS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| BELT SWIMMING POOL | $5,000 |
| GERALDINE SENIOR CITIZENS | $5,000 |
| GERALDINE SWIMMING POOL ASSOC INC | $5,000 |
| BELT GOLDEN AGERS SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| LITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
85 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- GCGERALDINE COMMUNITY AMBULANCE3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +169%
- BVBELT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +44%
- LBLITTLE BELT COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- JBJUDITH BASIN RURAL FIRE STANDORD DISTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- JBJUDITH BASIN RURAL FIRE - STANFORD DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 Mission of the Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…
Provides financial support for the community library by purchasing materials and supplies to continue general operations and programs.
Provide funding for the improvement & enhancement of the Beaverhead County Fairgrounds.
To provide food to those in need in rural deer lodge, mt.
Through leadership and integrity, the belgrade chamber of commerce is committed to unite the business community and enhance the quality of life in belgrade, mt.
The organization supports the small rural community of gardiner mt by maintaining a community center for gatherings and events as well as maintaining the small park at the entrance to yellowstone national park. the long-term goal of the…
To receive and accept property to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily in, or for the benefit of gallatin county, montana.
Operation of a county historical society and museum which produces exhibits promoting local history; manages a library relating to local history
To support the beaverton city library
Museum
Our mission is to supplement the funds received from the city of belmond to meet the library's needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Belt Cowboys Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stanford Library Guild 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 12 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 27% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 128 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.
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: Lippard-Clawiter Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Tordik Wildlife Foundation · 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 Leroy and Claris Strand 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.