· Community foundation
Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation
Support local worthwhile community projects with income from a permanent endowment fund on the flathead indian reservation and the surrounding area
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $30,000 |
| NINEPIPES MUSEUM OF EARLY MONTANA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MISSION VALLEY AQUATICS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,446 |
| POLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| POLSON FAIRGROUNDS | $5,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $228k
- MVMISSION VALLEY AQUATICS6× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue -23%
- NMNINEPIPES MUSEUM OF EARLY MONTANA2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- LCLAKE COUNTY LIBRARY DISTone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $13k
- PPYSAone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Provide a safe place for artifacts that have ties to the early Flathead Valley Settlement days including Native American artifacts.
Search & rescue
To train coach and educate atheltes
League player fees and tournament fees
Historical museum
To promote harmony and stimulate county-wide economic growth. with a goal to improve the quality of life, enhance communications between workforce & education, we strive for a postitive partnership with all jackson county citizens.
recreation
Community hall - non profit - promote community of moose pass alaska and the quality of living
The mission of the mineral county pool in the park is to enhance physical and mental well-being and promote health, safety, and recreational opportunities for all by designing and obtaining funding to build a community pool.
To provide facilities and instruction to figure skating club members.
Teach swimming and sportsmanship.
Golf Course
How this is measured
8 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. 8 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MISSION VALLEY AQUATICS ↗
- Who funds NINEPIPES MUSEUM OF EARLY MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Mission Valley Mariners Inc Baseball Association ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POLSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds POLSON FAIRGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lower Flathead Valley Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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