· Private foundation
Nibs and Edna Allen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FD INC | $26,000 |
| MILES CITY CONVENT KEEPERS | $15,000 |
| KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL | $13,000 |
| MILES CITY POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOC | $11,000 |
| GAMMA BETA 14177 | $10,000 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| RANGE RIDERS INC | $6,100 |
| HIGHLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EKALAKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RANGE RIDERS INC | $4,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- CCCUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +79% · 25% of their budget
- RRRANGE RIDERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $127k · revenue +19%
- WAWATERWORKS ART MUSEUM8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- GCGARFIELD COUNTY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
- MCMILES COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $17k
- BVBroadus Volunteer Fire Department Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · 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.
Museum
Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum
To preserve rural health care
To honor the history of Freestone County
Preserve cass county history
Historical Society for Ouray County, Colorado Museum, Historical Programs, mining, ranching and indian exhibit and artifacts, archiving historical documents and historical programs for the general public.
Maintain and develop museum to preserve the history of the local area
Preservation of history in Whitman County
The mohave county historical society maintains a museum in kingman, arizona to collect and display historical objects and to increase and distribute knowledge and appreciation of the history of the area.
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
Educational/record preservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Montana Casagal Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keep Miles City Beautiful. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 61 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 CUSTER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANGE RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY CONVENT KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds KEEP MILES CITY BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds CUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Broadus Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC ↗
- Who funds MILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRGROUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds POWDER RIVER FIRST RESPONDERS LTD ↗
- Who funds CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE 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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Treacy Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · 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 Nibs and Edna Allen 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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