· Public charity
Montana Wilderness Association
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
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.
The 1 grants below total $9,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,788 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS AND ANGLERS | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TGTHE GLACIER-TWO MEDICINE ALLIANCE3× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +240%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +23%- FOFRIENDS OF SCOTCHMAN PEAKS WILDERNESS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- USUPPER SEVEN LAWgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +63%
- MWMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +52%
- HEHEADWATERS ECONOMICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +55%
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.
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Montana hunters and anglers action is an organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat and access to public lands for hunting and fishing.
Promote research and actions to save wildlife.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
The wyoming wilderness association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.
Founded in 1974, trustees for alaska serves the public interest by providing legal counsel to protect and defend alaska's lands, waters, wildlife, and people.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Promote wildlife habitat
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is The Kendeda Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE GLACIER-TWO MEDICINE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCOTCHMAN PEAKS WILDERNESS INC ↗
- Who funds WILD MONTANA ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds UPPER SEVEN LAW ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
- Who funds The Kendeda Fund ↗
- Who funds MONTANA AMBASSADORS 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: The Kendeda Fund · Patagoniaorg · Wilburforce Foundation · Maki Foundation · Western Conservation Action · The High Stakes Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wilderness Association 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.