· Private foundation
Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of MARSHALL AND MARY BRONDUM SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k77 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,735 |
| MISSION VALLEY SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,105 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,595 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,532 |
| PINTER MIKE LECLAIR BARB | $6,000 |
| CATALYST FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,865 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,860 |
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 (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 74 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- AFANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +5%
- RTRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- LLIFTTone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
Mdsc, doing business as the arc western montana, provides people with developmental disabilities and their families with the skills, tools, and supports that foster self-determination and inclusion, so they thrive as integrated members in…
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Missoula aging services promotes the independence, dignity, and health of older adults and those that care for them through advocacy, education, services, and volunteer opportunities.
Provide assistance to people with diabilities so that they can live independently.
MountainCare provides supportive and enriching Adult Day Services enabling older adults to age in place. We aspire to be an unwavering partner for adults and those who care for them. Together, we encourage independence, provide meaningful…
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
To provide group home and work/day habilitation services to developmentally and intellectually disabled adults under contract with the state of montana, department of health and human series, developmental disabilities division.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Home Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is My Glacier Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 335 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Montana Association for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE 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.
Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · 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 Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc 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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