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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than 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 →

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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 Live Heregive Here-A Valley County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Live Heregive Here-A Valley County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 10 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-PF 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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