· Private foundation
Lyle & Gail Grimes Char 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,300 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD | $1,000 |
| BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MISSOULA ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MISSOULA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SHODAIR HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| LUTHERAN CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS LBTY | $1,000 |
| CARE NET | $1,000 |
| MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $500 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BCBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +162%
- MHMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +443%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MTMT TROUT UNLIMITEDone grant, 2020 · $2k
- WCWATSON CHILDRENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
The mission of the montana tech foundation is to advance the teaching, research and public service endeavors of montana tech by generating private contributions to supplement the institution's state and federal revenues for capital,…
Missoula international school inspires principled global citizens and lifelong learners through a challenging bilingual education from preschool to eighth grade.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Create sustainable homeownership opportunities and improve the availability of affordable rentals.
State-of-the-art pool and fitness center providing members of the mission valley community with opportunities to improve their quality of life through health and fitness in a positive, well-structured and safe environment. programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Montana Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NET OF MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA 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: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Earl and Bertha Pruyn Foundation · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · Louis L Borick Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lyle & Gail Grimes Char 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.
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