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Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtn

The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation provides national leadership in maintaining the integrity of the trail and its story through stewardship, scholarship, education, partnership, and cultural inclusiveness.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$109kEnvironment$30kRecreation & Sports$23kEducation$15kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$7kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
River Relief Inc$10,000
Confluence$10,000
Sioux City L&C Intep Ctr$7,500
Lewis & Clark Trail Adventures$7,500
J Gregg Smith Inc$7,500
Friends of Lewis and Clark Bicenten$7,500
Falls of the Ohio Foundation$5,000
Travelers Rest Preserv & Heritage$4,000
Oregon Black Pioneers$4,000
Lewis and Clark Foundation$3,500
Nez Perce Historical Society$2,500
Fort Osage Natl Historic Landmark$2,054
Opera Theater Oregon$1,500
City of Elk Point$1,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Friends of Lewis and Clark Bicenten: $8k → 6%BETTER PONCA FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%J Gregg Smith Inc: $8k → 12%Nez Perce Historical Society: $3k → 11%CLEARWATER RC&D: $10k → 16%MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS: $6k → 9%TRAVELERS' REST CONNECTION: $8k → 9%PARK COUNTY: $2k → 10%Lewis & Clark Trail Adventures: $8k → 13%Sioux City L&C Intep Ctr: $8k → 13%DISCOVERY EXPEDITION OF ST CHARLES MO INC: $15k → 5%MO-KS RIVER BEND CHAPTER LCT: $4k → 15%RIVER RELIEF INC: $7k → 17%FORT ATKINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%Opera Theater Oregon: $2k → 12%Falls of the Ohio Foundation: $5k → 10%LAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM: $8k → 18%Confluence: $10k → 9%SACAJAWEA HISTORICAL STATE PARK: $6k → 11%ILLINI CHAPTER: $8k → 14%LEWIS AND CLARK EXPLORATORY CENTER: $8k → 8%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%City of Elk Point: $1k → 6%OAHE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6k → 10%YANKTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%J GREGG SMITH INC: $8k → 12%Travelers Rest Preserv & Heritage: $4k → 9%Fort Osage Natl Historic Landmark: $2k → 15%Oregon Black Pioneers: $4k → 12%TRAVELERS REST PRES & HERITA: $7k → 9%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

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ID
MT
IL
WI
OR
SD
IA
IN
NE
MO
VA
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 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
Northwest Territory Historic Center
Arts & Culture
2
Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Cent

To educate the general public about the flora, fauna and scientific discoveries made during the lewis & clark expedition.

Arts & Culture
3
Sioux City Lewis & Clark Association
Arts & Culture
4
National Pronghorn Interpretive and Visitors Center

Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.

Arts & Culture
5
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
6
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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7
Knife River Heritage & Cultural Center
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8
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
9
Rainier Oregon Historical Museum

Preserving the past via a local museum.

Arts & Culture
10
Seaside Museum & Historical Society

Preserve and interpret the History & culture of Seaside Oregon by operating a Museum and outreach programs.

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11
Dakotaland Museum

The organization is dedicated to preserving, restoring and educating others about the history of the region.

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12
Cascadia Art Museum

Cascadia Art Museum is an educational nonprofit 501(c)3 organization celebrating the rich tradition of the visual arts in the Northwest region, as shaped by the Cascade Mountains. The museum provides enriching experiences for community and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Travelers Rest Preservation & Heritage Assoc; the most unlike its peers is Fort Osage National Historic Landmark Association. 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

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLEARWATER RC&D: $10,000 · OtherCLEARWATER RC&DLewis & Clark Trail Adventures: $7,500 · OtherLewis & Clark Trail AdventuresILLINI CHAPTER: $7,500 · OtherILLINI CHAPTERFriends of Lewis and Clark Bicenten: $7,500 · OtherFriends of Lewis and Clark BicentenIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJ GREGG SMITH INC: $7,500 · OtherJ GREGG SMITH INCJ Gregg Smith Inc: $7,500 · OtherJ Gregg Smith IncTRAVELERS REST PRES & HERITA: $7,000 · OtherTRAVELERS REST PRES & HERITASACAJAWEA HISTORICAL STATE PARK: $6,306 · OtherSACAJAWEA HISTORICAL STATE PARKOAHE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,800 · OtherOAHE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCFalls of the Ohio Foundation: $5,000 · OtherMO-KS RIVER BEND CHAPTER LCT: $4,000 · Other+4 more: $6,329 · Other+4 moreDISCOVERY EXPEDITION OF ST CHARLES MO INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY EXPEDITION OF ST CHA…CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PRO…LAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureLAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INCYANKTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureYANKTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI…SIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTER…OREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORAT…Travelers Rest Preservation & Heritage Assoc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTravelers Rest Preservation & …+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $17,200 · EnvironmentRIVER REL…SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationLewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc: $7,500 · EducationLEWIS & CLARK FOUNDATION: $3,500 · PhilanthropyFORT ATKINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFort Osage National Historic Landmark Association: $2,054 · PhilanthropyBETTER PONCA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $6,000 · Civil Rights
Other$99,435Arts & Culture$57,000Environment$17,200Education$15,000Philanthropy$8,554Community Improvement$6,000Civil Rights$6,000

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 budgetRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $17,200 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDISCOVERY EXPEDITION OF ST CHARLES MO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKOTA LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYANKTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSIOUX CITY LEWIS & CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAHE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,800 over 1y, 27% of budgetOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTravelers Rest Preservation & Heritage Assoc: $4,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFORT ATKINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Opera Theater Oregon: 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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