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Oakland 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $422k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $165,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $101,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA | $55,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIC | $25,000 |
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS | $20,000 |
| GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS CHILD & FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| PEACE PLACE | $10,000 |
| SILVER CREST TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS GREAT FALLS | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 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; $125k 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
- GFGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $390k · revenue +32%
- EMEagle Mount4× · 2022–2025 · $182k · revenue +23%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- GFGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +57% · 38% of their budget
- THTHE HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $50k
- PPPEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities
It is the mission of the great falls children's receiving home to provide a temporary home for abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless children. the receiving home will provide shelter, food, clothing, warmth, love and understanding. it…
Provide food to the community; engage, educate and lead our community against hunger.
Gfda's mission is to grow diverse economic opportunities that enhance quality of life. gfda seeks to transform great falls, montana and the surrounding rural and tribal region into a thriving economy that raises the standard of living,…
Eagle Mount Great Falls provides therapeutic and recreational activities for children and adults of all ages with physical, developmental, behavioral and/or mental challenges, striving to improve the quality of life for them and their…
Family promise of gallatin valley in montana is a non-profit organization working with our community to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. we provide prevention services before families reach a…
The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peace Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS CHILD & FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEACE PLACE ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Davidson Family Foundation · Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc · Browning Kimball Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc · James M & Frances M Wylder 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 Oakland Family 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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