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Mkm Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Mkm Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$36kArts & Culture$26kHousing & Shelter$26kYouth Development$19kHealth$11kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,698
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLDI$4,698
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,548
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $400 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $350 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $300 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $150 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $150 → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $100 → 9%ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $200 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 25 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$100k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MR
    MONTANA RESCUE MISSION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $24k · revenue +63%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +69%
  • WH
    WESTERN HERITAGE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $3k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +32%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +43%
  • BP
    BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yellowstone Health Partnership

The Yellowstone Health Partnership supports the activities of the Yellowstone City-County Health Department dba RiverStone Health.

Health
2
Yellowstone Mountain Club Public Safety and Privacy Inc

Yellowstone mountain club public safety and privacy, inc. was incorporated for the purpose of providing full time, year-round public health and safety services for all persons and organizations located on, within, and, in some cases, even…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Yellowstone County Museum Foundation

The museum mission is to collect, preserve, research, and interpret the natural history and diverse cultures of the yellowstone valley of montana and the northern plains. we share this legacy through a full range of exhibits and…

Arts & Culture
4
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.

Animals
5
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
6
South Central Montana Regional Mental Health Center

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.

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7
Scenic Montana Trails
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8
Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch

Caring people, preparing youth for life.

Health
9
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Holy Rosary Healthcare

We reveal and foster god's healing love by improving the health ofthe people and communities we serve, especially those who are poorand vulnerable.

Health
11
St Luke Community Hospital

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,…

Health
12
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $24,000 · OtherMONTANA RESCUE MISSIONCLDI: $19,698 · OtherCLDISALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE PEACE INSTITUTE: $5,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE PEACE INSTITUTEYWCA: $5,200 · OtherYWCAFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4,548 · OtherBILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS (EDUCATION FOUNDATION): $3,900 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,500 · Other+16 more: $11,021 · Other+16 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN …YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $4,000 · Human ServicesRiverStone Health Foundation: $1,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE: $1,050 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 · Human Services+2 more: $225 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA: $2,000 · HealthSCL HEALTH - MONTANA: $1,800 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $1,700 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $3,600 · Youth DevelopmentBILLINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150 · Arts & CultureEagle Mount: $1,600 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$87,367Education$17,000Human Services$7,875Health$6,000Youth Development$3,600Arts & Culture$2,150Philanthropy$1,600Recreation & Sports$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $24,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN HERITAGE CENTER: $2,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH: $2,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCL HEALTH - MONTANA: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $1,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEagle Mount: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN HERITAGE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SCL HEALTH - MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
  • Who funds RiverStone Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds St John's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARBON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTLEY PROJECT LIONS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…The Mary Alice Fortin…Gianforte Family Char…Town Pump Charitable …Donald & Carol Robert…Charles M Bair Family…Fair View FoundationScl Health - MontanaTreacy FoundationThe Louvin Foundation
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT33.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Fair View Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Treacy Foundation · The Louvin Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mkm Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mkm Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home