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Oakland Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$587k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$425kRecreation & Sports$415kPhilanthropy$314kArts & Culture$300kHuman Services$220kHousing & Shelter$155kYouth Development$110kReligion$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $422k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$165,000
EAGLE MOUNT$101,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA$55,000
BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$50,000
UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY$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
MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT COUNCILS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIC: $25k → 14%PEACE PLACE: $10k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-9%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthReligionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GF
    GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $390k · revenue +32%
  • EM
    Eagle Mount
    4× · 2022–2025 · $182k · revenue +225%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF
    3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GF
    GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +57% · 38% of their budget
  • PP
    PEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TH
    THE HISTORY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

04Its 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
Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation

The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities

Health
2
Great Falls Children's Receiving Home

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…

Human Services
3
Great Falls Community Food Bank Inc

Provide food to the community; engage, educate and lead our community against hunger.

—
4
Great Falls Development Authority

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,…

Community Improvement
5
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Eagle Mount Great Falls

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…

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
9
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Greater Wyoming Big Brothers Big Sisters

To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

—
11
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
12
Partnership for Children

To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Montana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $250,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SE…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA: $105,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MO…GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE: $75,000 · OtherGREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITEIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherPEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATIONTHE HISTORY MUSEUM: $50,000 · OtherTHE HISTORY MUSEUMMONTANA SCHOOL FOR DEAF & BLIND: $35,000 · OtherGREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherSPECIAL K RANCH: $34,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+4 more: $30,000 · OtherGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $390,372 · PhilanthropyGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATI…Eagle Mount: $181,500 · PhilanthropyEagle MountUNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY: $122,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTYSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $260,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS M…GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsGREAT FALLS COMMUN…GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $145,000 · Human ServicesGREAT FAL…GREAT FALLS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS CLINIC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREAT FAL…PEACE PLACE: $10,000 · Human ServicesPEACE PLA…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS: $30,000 · Religion
Other$749,500Philanthropy$693,872Recreation & Sports$360,000Human Services$180,000Housing & Shelter$125,000Health$70,000Religion$30,000

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 budgetGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $390,372 over 4y, 14% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $260,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $181,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $145,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $125,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY: $122,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA: $105,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY ICE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetGREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH: $34,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS: $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Town Pump Charitable …Alice Lee Lund Charit…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Otto Bremer TrustDavidson Family Found…Zeller-Knowles Founda…Browning Kimball Foun…Gianforte Family Char…Herb Waltermire Comm …James M & Frances M W…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Oakland Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oakland Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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