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Madrona Hill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.7MYouth Development$765kHuman Services$250kFood & Nutrition$217kHousing & Shelter$157kHealth$155kReligion$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA$50,000
PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION$40,000
ST FRANCIS SHELTER$25,000
MARION POLK FOOD SHARE$20,000
MISSOULA FOOD BANK$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $50k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 13 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$3.3M
$114k

Still filing today

77%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationHealthOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +41%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $650k · revenue +69%
  • MF
    MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • UF
    UM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $114k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Fondy Food Center Inc

He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.

Food & Nutrition
2
Livingston Food Pantry of Park County

In 2024, the livingston food resource center (lfrc) continued its mission of addressing food insecurity and promoting community well-being across park county. through innovative programs, partnerships with local producers, and adapting to…

Food & Nutrition
3
Springfield Rescue Mission

The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…

Human Services
4
Young Men's Christian Association

We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.

Human Services
5
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

6
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines

The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…

7
Lebanon Valley Family Ymca

The lebanon valley family ymca mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. with a focus of being the leading non-profit organization in providing programs,…

8
Garden City Harvest Inc

Garden city harvest's mission is to plant seeds and grow together to create a healthy community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
10
Missoula Interfaith Collaborative

Missoula interfaith collaborative builds relationships and action across differences to strengthen community, generate leaders, and foster meaningful connection so missoula can thrive.

Religion
11
Missoula Mountain Bike Coalition

Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.

Recreation & Sports
12
The Salem Mission Inc

Lifebridge's mission is to offer men and women the opportunities they need to end their homelessness. we believe that the way to solve this crisis, one person at a time, is to provide housing with supportive services, to encourage personal…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missoula Food Bank & Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Team Gleason Foundation. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $1,585,785 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $650,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAL…ISAAC'S ROOM — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentISAAC'S ROOMST FRANCIS SHELTER — $156,650 · OtherST FRANCIS SHE…UM FOUNDATION — $114,215 · OtherUM FOUNDATIONUNION GOSPEL MISSION — $90,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL M…Individual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual gra…UNITED WAY — $35,000 · OtherUNITED WAYGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $150,000 · Human ServicesGREATER M…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY BU…TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEA…MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $180,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $37,000 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Health
Education$1,585,785Youth Development$730,000Other$435,865Human Services$285,000Food & Nutrition$217,000Health$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $1,585,785 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $650,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetST FRANCIS SHELTER — $156,650 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM — $80,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $37,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES
  • Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS SHELTER
  • Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA
  • Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
  • Who funds ISAAC'S ROOM
  • Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION

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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Salem Health · The Salem Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Willamette Health Council · Braemar Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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 Madrona Hill 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Family Building Blocks Inc68% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room5% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Madrona Hill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Madrona Hill Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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