· Private foundation
Morris and Helen Silver Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,414 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HGRM | $1,000 |
| CRYSTAL PEAKS YOUTH RANCH | $500 |
| GRIZZLY RODEO ASSOCIATION | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +35%
- HHGRM4× · 2017–2023 · $34k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2018–2021 · $10k
Funded once
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +338%- TLThe LifeGuard Group Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.
Currently housing and caring for 84 displaced wild mustang horses
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS PROJECTS INC DANCING WITH HORSES ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER PINES HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch Co ↗
- Who funds Grizzly Rodeo Association ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Morris and Helen Silver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morris and Helen Silver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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