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Montana Pool Service Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$881k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$242k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$2.2MArts & Culture$150kPublic Benefit$64kEducation$20kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$500
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $856k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$242,100
Individual grant recipient$200,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
CITY OF CLINTON$100,000
CITY OF GLASGOW$63,750
CITY OF COLUMBIA FALLS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$19,778
GIRLS ON SHRED$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CITY OF TOWNSEND: $50k → 9%CITY OF LINCOLN: $100k → 9%CITY OF RED LODGE: $50k → 9%CITY OF ARLEE: $200k → 9%city of livingston: $50k → 10%CITY OF COLUMBIA FALLS: $50k → 11%CITY OF CLINTON: $100k → 11%DARBY: $10k → 11%CITY OF GLASGOW: $64k → 12%TOWN OF SUPERIOR: $50k → 13%CITY OF DEER LODGE: $100k → 16%CITY OF TROY: $50k → 17%CITY OF SHELBY: $60k → 18%CITY OF PABLO: $242k → 18%Hill CountyBox Elder MT: $102k → 18%CITY OF HARDIN: $250k → 23%CITY OF WOLF POINT: $147k → 24%TOWN OF BROWNING: $50k → 26%TONY HAWK FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%GLACIER SKATE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%OUN: $10k → 10%STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE: $233k → 33%PINE RIDGE AGENCY: $15k → 42%UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%TOWN OF SUPERIOR: $13k → 13%CITY OF SHELBY: $34k → 18%CITY OF RONAN: $200k → 18%HAVRE: $50k → 18%ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 9%CITY OF SHELBY: $30k → 18%GIRLS ON SHRED: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field
04the grantee network

4 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $242,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE — $232,850 · OtherSTANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBEIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF WOLF POINT — $146,576 · OtherCITY OF WOLF POINTCITY OF SHELBY — $124,000 · OtherCITY OF SHELBYHill CountyBox Elder MT — $102,304 · OtherCITY OF LINCOLN — $100,000 · OtherCITY OF CLINTON — $100,000 · OtherCITY OF DEER LODGE — $100,000 · Other+13 more — $513,732 · Other+13 moreZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $19,778 · EducationGIRLS ON SHRED — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,311,562Arts & Culture$150,000Education$19,778Youth Development$5,000Philanthropy$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $19,778 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON SHRED — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ZOOTOWN ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GIRLS ON SHRED
  • Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Montana Pool Service 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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