· Private foundation
Melvin & Lois Hoiness 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 $10k14 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPOKANE HOPE | $20,700 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIKON | $15,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH | $15,000 |
| 2ND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEEN CLOSET | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES | $5,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN | $5,000 |
| SPOKANE GUILD'S SCHOOL & NEUROMUSCULAR CENTER | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% 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.
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 +100% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SGSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +126%
- SHSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +100%
- BCBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- SCSPOKANIMAL CAREgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +64%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $2k
- EMEAGLE MOUNT BILLINGSone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +11%
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.
To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…
Provide food for individuals in need
Empowering people to live healthy lives.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
"With open hearts and expertise, we serve the seriously ill and those touched by loss." Our grief and loss program is provided to patients' loved ones, but is also available to other members of our community. Palliative services are…
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 reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
Provide assistance to people with diabilities so that they can live independently.
Logan health shelby is a 21-bed 501(c)(3), non-profit, community critical access hospital located in shelby, montana. the hospital serves toole county and surrounding communities providing emergency care, acute care, skilled swing bed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Yellowstone County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center ↗
- Who funds St John's Lutheran Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RiverStone Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Teen Closet ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAN'T ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS UNDER THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ID ↗
- Who funds CHASE HAWKS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANIMAL CARE ↗
- Who funds ITRON EMPLOYEE EMERGENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
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 · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Innovia Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Scl Health - Montana · The Avista Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · United Way of Yellowstone County 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 Melvin & Lois Hoiness 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.