· Private foundation
Logjam Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| MISSOULA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING | $25,000 |
| HOME RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| MISSOULA ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +161% since the first grant, against +120% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- SASPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +890% · 54% of their budget
- MAMISSOULA ART MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +161%
- SSSUSSEX SCHOOL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- MTMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITEDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $106k · revenue +153%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TRTHE ROXY THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +99%
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.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
The Myrna Loy inspires the creative spirits of people in and around Helena, Montana by presenting high-quality, culturally significant films and performing arts; by supporting local and regional artists in their work; and by nurturing a…
The mission of the missoula public library foundation is to advocate for the missoula public library and raise funds for library initiatives that enhance our community
The Pulp is dedicated to publishing accurate and relevant news and information that informs and engages the people of Missoula and western Montana. Through our journalism we aim to promote discourse, foster civic engagement and create…
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
To inspire an appreciation and understanding of insects and their relatives.
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
To develop, implement, and promote programs and services that support the physical, intellectual, and emotional health and well-being of missoula's senior population.
Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self
MUD empowers people to build a more sustainable community through hands-on learning in our Workshops, shared resources in our Tool Library, and by providing a living example of sustainable urban living at our Demonstration Site
Providing quality live performances for the conrad area
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missoula Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Sussex School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds HOME RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ROXY THEATER ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Ruth Pruitt Phillips Foundation Inc · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · Leaw Family Foundation Inc · Merlin Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Llewellyn 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 Logjam 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.