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Logjam Foundation at a glance

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Logjam Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$764kEnvironment$131kEducation$61kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$937
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING$25,000
WILLARD SCHOOL$8,000
Bare Bait Dance$4,125
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$3,000
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO: $100 → 9%WHITTIER SCHOOL: $100 → 10%ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $500k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBR: $50k → 9%ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 9%MISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%MISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Bare Bait Dance: $4k → 9%ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 9%HOME RESOURCES: $25k → 9%THE ROXY THEATER: $15k → 9%MISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSO: $11k → 9%WILLARD SCHOOL: $8k → 9%SUSSEX SCHOOL: $6k → 9%MISSOULA FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%SUSSEX SCHOOL: $3k → 9%MISSOULA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2k → 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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$755k · 5 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +161% since the first grant, against +120% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$755k
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+161%
+120%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SA
    SPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +890% · 54% of their budget
  • MA
    MISSOULA ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +161%
  • SS
    SUSSEX SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • MT
    MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $106k · revenue +153%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBR
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MC
    MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +13%
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

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
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
2
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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3
Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium

To inspire an appreciation and understanding of insects and their relatives.

Animals
4
The Pulp

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Myrna Loy

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Arts Council of Big Sky

To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.

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7
Missoula Midtown Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
8
Missoula Public Library Foundation

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

Education
9
Missoula Electric Cooperative Inc

Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.

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10
Missoula Senior Citizens Center

To develop, implement, and promote programs and services that support the physical, intellectual, and emotional health and well-being of missoula's senior population.

Human Services
11
Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center Inc

To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.

Arts & Culture
12
Monroe Street Arts Center

Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missoula Art Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $535,500 · Arts & CultureZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTERSPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNINGMISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $24,125 · Arts & CultureARTS MISSOULA: $115,470 · OtherARTS MISSOULAFOUNDATION FOR MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBR: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR MISSOUL…THE ROXY THEATER: $15,000 · OtherTHE ROXY THEATERMISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSO: $11,150 · OtherMISSOULA AREA YOUTH HO…WILLARD SCHOOL: $8,000 · Other+4 more: $5,200 · OtherMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED: $106,150 · Recreation & SportsMONTANA TRO…HOME RESOURCE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentSUSSEX SCHOOL INC: $9,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,120 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$659,625Other$204,820Recreation & Sports$106,150Environment$25,000Education$12,000Food & Nutrition$5,120Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $535,500 over 4y, 31% of budgetMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED: $106,150 over 1y, 15% of budgetSPARK ARTS IGNITE LEARNING: $75,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetMISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOME RESOURCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSUSSEX SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBARE BAIT DANCE: $4,125 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…Missoula Community Fo…The Bill & Rosemary G…First Interstate Banc…The Ruth Pruitt Phill…Jane S Heman Foundati…James G and Marcia H …Leaw Family Foundatio…Merlin Foundation IncMax and Betty Swanson…The Llewellyn Foundat…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Logjam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Logjam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 20 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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