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Oro y Plata Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB NORTHERN CHEYENNE N | $86,000 |
| FAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP | $70,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GLACIER COUN | $65,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLTHD RSRVTI | $55,000 |
| MONTANA YOUTH HOMES | $50,000 |
| NAMI MONTANA | $45,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF MISSOULA | $45,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS - FLATHEAD COUNTY | $45,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA | $45,000 |
| CASA OF MONTANA | $45,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH | $40,000 |
| PIEGAN INSTITUTE | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CASCADE COUN | $40,000 |
| YWCA OF BILLINGS | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MISSOULA COU | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- FIFAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +43%
- MNMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +72%
- NMNAMI MONTANA8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- FCFLATHEAD COUNTY VOLUNTEER PARK LAKEone grant, 2022 · $6.4M
- CFCASA FOR KIDS INC KALISPELLone grant, 2023 · $45k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Our mission is to end hunger in the valley county, montana area through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. our vision is a montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.
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…
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
Montana's Peer Network is a statewide peer run 501(c)3 non-profit recovery organization with a mission to lead the expansion and development of recovery-oriented behavioral health services in Montana.
Family promise of great falls provides support and resources to children and their families in a homeless situation until the family can regain sustainable independence. we partner with social service agencies and a diverse network of…
To assume a leadership role in feeding the hungry by recovering, securing, purchasing, and delivering (both through other agencies and directly) quality food and other products while playing a strong education and advocacy role in…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Swagar Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 173 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 FAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTANA ↗
- Who funds PIEGAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS' EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CODE GIRLS UNITED ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KALISPELL 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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Sample Foundation Inc · The High Stakes 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 Oro y Plata 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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