· Private foundation
Margaret V Ping Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| SOFT LANDING MISSOULA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| ANGELAS PIAZZA | $6,000 |
| MT ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CENTER | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $5,000 |
| SINGING WATERS | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL VILLAGE FAIR TRADE | $4,500 |
| MSU-B YOUNG POETS PROGRAM | $4,500 |
| MSU-B UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL8× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +66%
- MHMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +443%
- APANGELAS PIAZZA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OPERATIONSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FPFAMILY PROMISEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $9k
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.
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.
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,…
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
Promotion and development of montana's construction industry.
Inform, educate & represent member interests
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.
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.
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
The montana conservation voters education fund educates, engages, and empowers all montanans to protect our clean air, clean water, public lands, and democracy.
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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 NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELAS PIAZZA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Montana Environmental Information Center ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
- Who funds CROW LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Margaret V Ping Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret V Ping Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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