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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$723k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.9MHuman Services$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$929kArts & Culture$468kEducation$343kYouth Development$337kEnvironment$269kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $2,332,857, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,558,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $225,372 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $658k
  • $250k+2 grants · $984k
$14,950
Median grant
4
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$722,741
Bridgercare$260,833
HRDC$240,247
SUFFER OUT LOUD$112,190
PRAIRIE SONG RESCUE$75,000
BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY$63,036
MIDDLE CREEK MONTESSORI$61,000
BRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION$55,956
GALLATIN ICE FOUNDATION$50,100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MONTANA$46,000
MONTANA MINDFULNESS PROJECT$40,000
Haven$38,411
MUSEUM OF THE YELLOWSTONE$36,100
Family Promise of Gallatin Va$35,573
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF BZN$35,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.8M) 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. Its 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%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $10k → 10%SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FND: $10k → 10%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $7k → 10%LITTLE RANGERS LEARNING CENTE: $75k → 10%HELP CENTER: $1.2M → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $63k → 10%HELP CENTER: $43k → 10%The Help Center: $25k → 10%HELP CENTER: $21k → 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
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 43 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
47

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

98%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • HC
    HELP CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +197% · 47% of their budget
  • B
    BRIDGERCARE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $678k · revenue +278%
  • GG
    GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $625k · revenue +47%

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 -38% · 30% of their budget
  • ML
    MORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $84k · revenue +28%
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.

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Scenic Montana Trails
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2
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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3
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
Run Wild Missoula Inc

Our mission is to empower and support runners and walkers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds in Missoula. With a vibrant community of over 2,400 members, we provide a welcoming space for like-minded individuals to connect and explore…

Recreation & Sports
9
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
10
Montana Wilderness Association

Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.

Environment
11
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
12
Montana Shares Inc

A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bighorn Valley Health Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 111 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
58/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $1,400,100 · EnvironmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATI…GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $796,399 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUSTMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $220,025 · EnvironmentMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION …+9 more: $273,515 · Environment+9 moreHELP CENTER INC: $1,255,000 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INCFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $286,664 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GAL…KAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $100,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $72,381 · Human Services+8 more: $211,538 · Human Services+8 moreBRIDGERCARE: $677,780 · OtherBRIDGERCAREHAVEN: $371,821 · OtherHAVENTHRIVE INC: $147,089 · OtherTHRIVE INCYellowstone Historic Center Inc: $202,100 · OtherYellowstone Historic Center …BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $127,473 · Other+53 more: $1,191,823 · Other+53 moreYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB CO…GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC: $624,925 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN UN…Eagle Mount: $76,797 · Philanthropy+6 more: $103,935 · Philanthropy+6 moreCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER: $416,784 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $130,033 · Recreation & SportsWest Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation: $36,000 · Recreation & SportsDIRT CONCERN - SOUTHWEST MONTANA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION: $22,747 · Recreation & SportsSUFFER OUT LOUD: $179,290 · HealthThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $150,000 · HealthIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $101,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA: $25,520 · Health+2 more: $17,693 · HealthMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC: $84,000 · EducationMIDDLE CREEK ACADEMY INC: $61,000 · EducationBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $52,200 · EducationThe Charlie Cart Project: $40,000 · EducationWorld Language Initiative MT: $35,000 · EducationREADMontana: $25,566 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationBOZEMAN SUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $20,739 · EducationTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education
Environment$2,690,039Human Services$2,000,583Other$2,718,086Philanthropy$1,830,657Recreation & Sports$605,564Health$473,503Education$358,505

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $1,400,100 over 3y, 22% of budgetHELP CENTER INC: $1,255,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $796,399 over 3y, 19% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $677,780 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC: $624,925 over 6y, 11% of budgetCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER: $416,784 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetHAVEN: $371,821 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $286,664 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $220,025 over 7y, 26% of budgetYellowstone Historic Center Inc: $202,100 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSUFFER OUT LOUD: $179,290 over 3y, 44% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $150,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $147,089 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBRIDGER SKI FOUNDATION: $130,033 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $127,473 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $101,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKAUAI NORTH SHORE FOOD PANTRY: $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMORNINGSTAR LEARNING CENTER INC: $84,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $77,775 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetEagle Mount: $76,797 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WATER GENOME: $75,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLITTLE RANGER LEARNING CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC: $72,659 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $72,381 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMOONLIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMIDDLE CREEK ACADEMY INC: $61,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMONTANA MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $58,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $53,435 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBIG SKY DISCOVERY SCHOOL INC dba BIG SKY DISCOVERY ACADEMY: $52,200 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $51,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOZEMAN LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION: $50,666 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGALLATIN ICE FOUNDATION INC: $50,100 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY: $40,100 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Charlie Cart Project: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWest Yellowstone Ski Education Foundation: $36,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetWorld Language Initiative MT: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIQRA Fund: $34,217 over 3y, 1.1% 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 budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION: $27,125 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetREACH INC: $26,253 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWEST YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBOZEMAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $25,825 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetREADMontana: $25,566 over 2y, 3.8% 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.

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

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 One Valley Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One Valley Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 111 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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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