· Community foundation
Park County Community Foundation
Our mission is to connect caring people and resources with community needs and opportunities.
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 $10k11 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHANE LALANI CENTER FOR THE A | $184,535 |
| NORTH YELLOWSTONE EDUCATION F | $170,420 |
| PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COU | $167,090 |
| FARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY | $131,764 |
| ASPEN | $126,648 |
| LIVINGSTON HEALTH CARE FOUNDA | $125,710 |
| COUNTERPOINT | $119,685 |
| THE LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE | $114,610 |
| FRIENDS OF LINKS FOR LEARNING | $103,755 |
| FRIENDS OF PARK COUNTY | $98,010 |
| WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHAN | $77,018 |
| LIVINGSTON SCHOOL DISTRICTS | $75,040 |
| LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION | $72,991 |
| LIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ARTS AN | $71,381 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIV | $67,807 |
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, $678k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 16 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k 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
- TSThe Shane Lalani Center for the Arts8× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +103%
- PCPark County Environmental Council6× · 2019–2024 · $661k · revenue +202%
- NYNorth Yellowstone Education Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $604k · revenue +426% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF HELENA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +937%
- CCCENTRAL CROSS COUNTRY SKIING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -59%
- TPTESLOW PRESERVATION GROUPone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
Promote research and actions to save wildlife.
The montana preservation alliance (mpa) saves and protects montana's historic places, traditional landscapes, and cultural heritage. we are the only statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing montanans with the resources…
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.
Promote wildlife habitat
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Ranges Community Recreation Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montessori Island School Inc. 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 17 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 113 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 The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds Park County Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds North Yellowstone Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Counterpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Park County ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER ARTS & LECTURES ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE YELLOWSTONE GATEWAY MUSEUM OF PARK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARDINER FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Little People Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FRESHWATER PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER PROJECT OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN 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: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Stake Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · Freeman Family 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 Park County 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.
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.