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Mott Family Foundation at a glance

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Mott Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

61% of Mott Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$110,000
AMERICAN RIVERS$25,000
BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT$25,000
GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE$10,000
PEACE FOR DC$10,000
WMPAC$5,000
SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $50k → 10%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%PEACE FOR DC: $10k → 14%WMPAC: $5k → 10%GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RIVERS: $25k → 14%WARREN MILLER PERFORMING ART CENTER: $5k → 10%SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%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 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
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
2
Forever Our Rivers Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Benefit Big Sky

To support initiatives in the big sky community that benefit recreation, education, arts, environment, safety, public works, and infrastructure.

Public Benefit
4
Scenic Montana Trails
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5
A Better Big Sky

A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…

Community Improvement
6
Bitterroot Water Partnership

BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities

Environment
7
Visit Big Sky

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…

Community Improvement
8
Living Rivers

Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…

Environment
9
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition

Vision: a healthy and resilient big thompson watershed benefitting fish, wildlife, and the people itserves through collaborative efforts for current and future generations. mission: working with others to take action that protects and…

Environment
10
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
11
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
12
Yellowstone Ecological Research Center

The mission of the yellowstone ecological research center (yerc) is to empower communities and individuals with data-driven science and technology to activate land, water, and wildlife stewardship across the greater yellowstone ecosystem…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spanish Peaks Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Rileys Urgent Fund for Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $50,000 · AnimalsRILEY'S URGENT FUND FO…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS…Gallatin River Task Force: $10,000 · EnvironmentGallatin River …BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOU…SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPEACE FOR DC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalWMPAC: $5,000 · Other
Philanthropy$115,000Animals$50,000Environment$35,000Youth Development$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Other$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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