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Montana Right Hand Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRIVE | $6,000 |
| HRDC | $5,000 |
| CRU | $5,000 |
| BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPUTER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| AMPERSAND FAMILIES | $1,000 |
| HOPA MOUNTAIN | $1,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSN MN | $1,000 |
| BRIDGER CARE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BSBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +33%
- ACAmerican Computer Museum LTD8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +153%
- HMHOPA MOUNTAIN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PUPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -26%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $750 · revenue +119%- BABOZEMAN ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +123%
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.
As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…
To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.
Planned Parenthood of Montana empowers all people to make informed decisions and ensures the freedom to manage their own sexuality, and personal health by providing the highest quality confidential healthcare services, education, and…
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
Inspire and nurture future explorers, innovators, and critical thinkers through interactive play in a safe, engaging environment with hands-on exhibits and programs designed specifically for children ages two to eight years old.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
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.
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,…
Zero to five montanas mission is to work for our children, for our future. our promise is to stabilize, innovate, and build the early childhood system so montana families and communities can thrive. we are a statewide early childhood…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ampersand Families and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Computer Museum LTD ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of Bozeman Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGERCARE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMPERSAND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
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 · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · One Valley Community Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Gilhousen Family Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation
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 Montana Right Hand 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.
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