· Private foundation
McBride Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Helena Food Share Inc | $12,000 |
| Friendship Center of Helena Inc | $10,000 |
| Indian Law Resource Center | $7,500 |
| Holter Museum of Art Inc | $5,000 |
| Wild Montana | $3,500 |
| YWCA of Helena | $3,334 |
| Last Chance Tours | $3,334 |
| Shodair Children's Hospital | $3,333 |
| Intermountain Children's Home | $3,333 |
| Florence Crittenton Home | $3,333 |
| Soroptimist Club of Helena | $2,500 |
| Montana Historical Society | $2,500 |
| St Labre Indian School Educational Asso | $2,500 |
| Women's Foundation of Montana | $2,500 |
| Fort William Henry Harrison Militar | $2,333 |
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 (FY22–25, $9k) 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 7% of McBride Family Foundation’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HFHELENA FOOD SHARE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +87%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +146%
- HAHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- FJFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
- FJFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-FALone grant, 2017 · $4k
- FWFORT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
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,…
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gods Love Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLTER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GODS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WILLIAM HARRISON MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Childrens Home ↗
- Who funds PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds HELENA UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTANA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Helena Area Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Wall Family-Power Townsend Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Merlin Foundation Inc
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 McBride Family 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.