· Private foundation
Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment
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: 64% of Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Education Foundation for Billings Public Schools | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE of Montana | $2,500 |
| NOVA Center for Performing Arts | $2,500 |
| Chinook Horses | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Big Sky Christian Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Billings Studio Theatre | $2,500 |
| Montana Audobon Center | $2,500 |
| High Plains Book Awards | $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 (FY18–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 6% of Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment’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, 100% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +127%
- NCNOVA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +30%
- BSBILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC5× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- BSBIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +139%
- RPRose Park Elementary Schoolone grant, 2018 · $1k
- KFKICKS FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2021 · $800
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.
Our mission is to develop a strong business climate and vibrant economy by serving the community in a leadership role therapy enhancing the quality of life.
Billings middle school is a dynamic academic community intentionally designed to stretch, support, and inspire early adolescent learners. students develop intellect, creativity, communication & collaboration skills, self-confidence, and an…
The bozeman symphony provides programming for the benefit of individuals, students and musicians.
Organized as the butte symphony association (bsa), the all-volunteer butte symphony orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in montana. founded in 1950, the butte symphony has been an integral part of the art and music scene in sw…
To enhance the capacity of donors and charitable organizations to meet the needs of the greater billings community. we manage endowment funds for community 501 (c)(3) organizations in the greater billings, mt area. billings community…
To provide a venue for independent cinema and cultivative culture in billings, montana.
Billings united soccer club exists to promote the sport of soccer in billings and montana, by providing programming and league play for individuals of all abilities and levels of commitment.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
To provide a christ-centered education that develops critical thinking, clear communication, and faithful living.
The billings preservation society organization consist of administering, operating, maintaining, and restoration of the moss mansion historic house museum for the purpose of inspiring, educating, and facilitating historical and cultural…
Provide within the state of montana means and facilities for children and adolescents from as young as four years in age to nineteen years in age to engage in, develop skills in, and play the sports of soccer.
To assume a leadership role in feeding the hungry by recovering, securing, purchasing, and delivering (both through other agencies and directly) quality food and other products while playing a strong education and advocacy role in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Billings Studio Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wise Wonders Childrens Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NOVA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK HORSES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate Bank Centennial Youth Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · United Way of Yellowstone County Inc · Brosovich Family Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family 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 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation for Youth Enrichment 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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