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Live Heregive Here-A Valley County 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$250k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALLEY COUNTY FOOD BANK$4,000
GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,000
GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST$1,500
FIRST LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL$1,500
ST RAPHAEL PARISH$1,000
VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE$1,000
VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 12%GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 12%GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $4k → 12%GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 12%GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2k → 12%CARING HANDS INC: $2k → 12%GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT: $2k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY HOPE PROJECT: $2k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: $2k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT: $2k → 12%GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2k → 12%FIRST LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL: $2k → 12%GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT: $1k → 12%GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $1k → 12%ST RAPHAEL PARISH: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 12%ST RAPHAEL PARISH: $1k → 12%ST RAPHAEL PARISH: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT: $1k → 12%GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 12%ST RAPHAEL PARISH: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT: $1k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MONTANA: $1k → 12%VALLEY COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 12%ST RAPHAEL PARISH: $1k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MONTANA: $500 → 12%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$44k · 6 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$44k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
-10%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity 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

  • GP
    GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k
  • GH
    GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +87%
  • VC
    VALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6k

Funded once

  • CH
    Caring Hands Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -10%
  • VC
    VALLEY COUNTY HOPE PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

3 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $19,000 · OtherGLASGOW PUBLIC SCHOOLSVALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPT — $6,000 · OtherVALLEY COUNTY LONG RUN FIRE DEPTVALLEY COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE — $5,500 · OtherVALLEY COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUEST RAPHAEL PARISH — $5,000 · OtherST RAPHAEL PARISHVALLEY COUNTY FOOD BANK — $4,000 · OtherVALLEY COUNTY FOOD BANKVALLEY COUNTY HOPE PROJECT INC — $1,500 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL — $1,500 · OtherGLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST — $6,500 · EducationGLASGOW HIGH SCHO…THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MT — $1,500 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS MUS…Caring Hands Inc — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$42,500Education$8,000Community Improvement$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST — $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCaring Hands Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MT — $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds GLASGOW HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
  • Who funds Caring Hands Inc
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF NORTHEAST MT

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Galen and Karla Zerbe Family FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Galen and Karla Zerbe 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 Live Heregive Here-A Valley County 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 10 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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