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One Valley Community Foundation

One valley's mission is to connect people who care to causes that matter to build a better community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$144k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.9MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$929kArts & Culture$468kEducation$343kYouth Development$337kEnvironment$269kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $1,225,098 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,474,290 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $249,192 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $606k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $497k
$13,020
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bridgercare$143,706
Big Sky Community Organizatio$78,500
ARTS INCUBATOR RANCH$59,000
Crosscut Mountain Sports Cent$57,616
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MONTANA$55,000
SUFFER OUT LOUD$52,100
AMERICAN RIVERS$51,150
HELP CENTER$42,831
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$40,459
MOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO$38,500
HRDC$38,108
Family Promise of Gallatin Va$33,122
Thrive Inc$31,742
BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION$31,077
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF$30,100
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $100k → 9%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT: $50k → 17%BENJAMINS HOPE: $50k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VA: $63k → 10%WOMEN IN ACTION: $10k → 10%SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FND: $10k → 10%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $10k → 10%LITTLE RANGERS LEARNING CENTE: $75k → 10%HELP CENTER: $1.2M → 10%HELP CENTER: $43k → 10%The Help Center: $25k → 10%Reach Inc: $20k → 10%Roots Family Collaborative: $15k → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $9k → 10%HRDC: $7k → 10%Roots Family Collaborative: $6k → 10%Reach Inc: $6k → 10%The Help Center: $6k → 10%HELP CENTER INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 34 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
35

Total granted

$5.9M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+28%

Still filing today

97%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • HC
    HELP CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +197% · 47% of their budget
  • B
    BRIDGERCARE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $417k · revenue +278%
  • CM
    CROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $392k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -36%
  • KN
    KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -48% · 30% of their budget
  • ML
    MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $84k · revenue +28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
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
3
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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4
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
5
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment
6
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
7
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
8
ZooMontana Inc

Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.

Animals
9
Montana Wilderness School

The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.

Environment
10
School of the Beartooths

Early childhood education and care. Mountain Bluebells recognizes and values the uniqueness of each child and fosters within them a sense of belonging inclusivity and connection. We believe that by engaging their heads hearts and hands we…

Education
11
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
12
Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bighorn Valley Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr13%21%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
10%
261/2,497

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.

04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 93 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
54/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,400,100 · EnvironmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZ…MONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $197,775 · EnvironmentMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATI…THE WATER GENOME — $75,000 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $73,658 · Environment+6 more — $158,050 · Environment+6 moreHELP CENTER INC — $1,234,018 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC — $251,091 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATI…KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY — $100,000 · Human ServicesKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PA…LITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER — $75,000 · Human Services+9 more — $213,858 · Human Services+9 moreYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,025,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COM…GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $384,678 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN UNI…+6 more — $103,808 · Philanthropy+6 moreBRIDGERCARE — $416,947 · OtherBRIDGERCAREHAVEN — $333,410 · OtherHAVENTHRIVE INC — $130,664 · OtherTHRIVE INCARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY — $66,750 · OtherMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC — $84,000 · OtherBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $118,351 · OtherBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT …+39 more — $814,398 · Other+39 moreCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER — $391,549 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION — $74,077 · Recreation & SportsWest Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation — $27,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $14,790 · Recreation & SportsThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $150,000 · HealthSUFFER OUT LOUD — $67,100 · HealthIntermountain Planned Parenthood — $55,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA — $25,520 · Health+1 more — $7,350 · HealthYellowstone Historic Center Inc — $166,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEMERSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE — $24,644 · Arts & CultureRANDOM ACTS OF SILLINESS — $9,575 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $24,919 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,904,583Human Services$1,873,967Philanthropy$1,513,486Other$1,964,520Recreation & Sports$507,416Health$304,970Arts & Culture$275,138

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $1,400,100 over 3y, 22% of budgetHELP CENTER INC — $1,234,018 over 5y, 47% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,025,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBRIDGERCARE — $416,947 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER — $391,549 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $384,678 over 5y, 11% of budgetHAVEN — $333,410 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC — $251,091 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $197,775 over 6y, 26% of budgetYellowstone Historic Center Inc — $166,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $150,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $130,664 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $118,351 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY — $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC — $84,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE WATER GENOME — $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION — $74,077 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $73,658 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSUFFER OUT LOUD — $67,100 over 2y, 24% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY — $66,750 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $59,716 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood — $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $51,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEagle Mount — $49,973 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY — $46,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC — $40,635 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY — $40,100 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION — $38,575 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWorld Language Initiative MT — $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Charlie Cart Project — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPTA HAWAII CONGRESS HANALEI PTA — $28,560 over 1y, 43% of budgetGALLATIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA GALLATIN HISTORY MUSEUM — $28,500 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetWest Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation — $27,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetREACH INC — $26,253 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWEST YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA — $25,520 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEMERSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE — $24,644 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE — $21,350 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetBOZEMAN SUMMIT SCHOOL INC — $20,739 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION — $20,100 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGREATER IMPACT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTOUCH THE SKY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetIQRA Fund — $18,879 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Montana Community Fou…Yellowstone Club Comm…Moonlight Community F…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Greater Gallatin Unit…Spanish Peaks Communi…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Bozeman Deaconess Hea…The Rieschel Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustCross Charitable Foun…Treacy Foundation
Montana Community Foundation IncMT59.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · The Rieschel Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Treacy 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 One Valley Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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