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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$86k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.7MHuman Services$3.2MYouth Development$3.0MCrime & Legal$1.2MHousing & Shelter$813kCommunity Improvement$787kHealth$460kFood & Nutrition$385kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $326k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAMILY PROMISE OF MISSOULA$45,000
CASA OF MONTANA$45,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA$45,000
CASA FOR KIDS - FLATHEAD COUNTY$45,000
NAMI MONTANA$45,000
YWCA OF BILLINGS$40,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MISSOULA COU$40,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CASCADE COUN$40,000
HOPA MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$40,000
PIEGAN INSTITUTE$40,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 12%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 12%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $35k → 18%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CENTER POLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $20k → 18%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $20k → 18%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $20k → 18%BEFRIENDERS: $10k → 10%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $20k → 18%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $10k → 18%CASA OF LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $5k → 18%FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $16k → 11%TUMBLEWEED: $3k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $2k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $11k → 11%TUMBLEWEED: $2k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $6k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $6k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $3k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $3k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $2k → 18%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $1k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $1k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $1k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $30k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $30k → 11%MY GLACIER VILLAGE: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $25k → 11%SENIOR MOBILE HOME REPAIR: $20k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $15k → 11%MY GLACIER VILLAGE: $15k → 11%SENIOR MOBILE HOME REPAIR: $15k → 11%SENIOR MOBILE HOME REPAIR: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $15k → 11%406 FOR KIDS: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $1k → 11%406 FOR KIDS: $1k → 11%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 125 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
41

Total granted

$11M
$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+4%

Still filing today

46%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • FI
    FAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +43%
  • MN
    MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +72%
  • NM
    NAMI MONTANA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • FC
    FLATHEAD COUNTY VOLUNTEER PARK LAKE
    one grant, 2022 · $6.4M
  • CF
    CASA FOR KIDS INC KALISPELL
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +4%
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
Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

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3
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
4
Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
7
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
8
Montana Food Bank Network Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Montanas Peer Network

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.

Health
10
Family Promise of Great Falls

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…

Religion
11
Billings Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 173 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
53/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLATHEAD COUNTY VOLUNTEER PARK LAKE: $6,432,318 · OtherFLATHEAD COUNTY VOLUNTEER PARK LAKE+137 more: $7,780,000 · Other+137 moreMONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION: $220,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $161,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES: $130,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $84,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR MOBILE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $43,400 · Human ServicesMY GLACIER VILLAGE: $40,000 · Human ServicesPromise686 Inc: $31,000 · Human Services+8 more: $57,500 · Human ServicesMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $312,000 · Community ImprovementHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $241,000 · Community ImprovementALANO CLUB OF KALISPELL INC: $110,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNAMI MONTANA: $310,000 · HealthTAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC: $260,000 · HealthNATE CHUTE FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · HealthDAY EAGLE HOPE PROJECT: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $19,000 · HealthFAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $425,000 · Crime & LegalFRONT RANGE CASA GAL INC: $85,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN: $190,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE GIRLS UNITED: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $206,000 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$14,212,318Human Services$876,900Community Improvement$678,500Health$645,500Crime & Legal$510,000Youth Development$335,000Recreation & Sports$218,000

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 budgetFAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $425,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $312,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetNAMI MONTANA: $310,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetPIEGAN INSTITUTE: $271,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetTAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC: $260,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $241,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMONTANA CASAGAL ASSOCIATION: $220,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $206,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN: $190,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG PARENTS' EDUCATION CENTER: $170,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $161,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetCASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES: $130,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCODE GIRLS UNITED: $120,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE: $120,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KALISPELL INC: $110,500 over 7y, 29% of budgetFLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC: $94,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFRONT RANGE CASA GAL INC: $85,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $84,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSENIOR MOBILE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM: $50,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $43,400 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMY GLACIER VILLAGE: $40,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetNATE CHUTE FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPromise686 Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA: $30,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $26,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetDAY EAGLE HOPE PROJECT: $25,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCASA OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetGREAT PLAINS VETERANS SERVICES CTR: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOCKADAY MUSEUM OF ART: $17,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $17,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOREVER MENTORING: $16,500 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetWEST SHORE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $15,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDARBY BREAD BOX: $15,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCenter Pole: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan House Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN CHEYENNE FOOD PANTRY: $12,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSAGEBRUSH FOOD PANTRY: $12,500 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetBEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBefrienders: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIBBY FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Town Pump Charitable …Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Gianforte Family Char…Montana Community Fou…Headwaters Health Fou…First Interstate Banc…Otto Bremer TrustWhitefish Community F…Montana Food Bank Net…The Steele-Reese Foun…Sample Foundation IncThe High Stakes Found…
Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT94.8× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Oro y Plata Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oro y Plata Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Oro y Plata Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oro y Plata 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 173 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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