· Private foundation
Pioneer Federal Community Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of PIONEER FEDERAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIALTO COMMUNITY THEATRE | $16,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| BE THE CHANGE 406 YOUTH COALITION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $3,000 |
| BEAVERHEAD COUNTY DUI TASKFORCE | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $2,900 |
| LEAF FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| DEER LODGE MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY | $2,500 |
| DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| DILLON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| BEAVERHEAD FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| BEAVERHEAD TRAILS COALITION | $2,000 |
| POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| DEER LODGE SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 | $1,400 |
| BARRETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- RCRIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +5%
- TUTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +243%
- PCPOWELL COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOC5× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GVGARRISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The sweet grass community health care foundation is in existence to provide support and donations to the medical facilities in the community of big timber montana.
Community Recycling Center
To Provide Financial and Other Support to Fire and Emergency Medical Service Organizations and Providers Serving the Greater Red Lodge, Montana Community.
To preserve rural health care
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Barrett Hospital & HealthCare provides compassionate care, healing, and health-improving service to all community members throughout life's journey.
To provide through local leadership economic, technical, and engineering information, and access to resources to improve theeconomies in the area.
Mountainview medical center is a non-profit corporation founded and supported by members of the community for those in need of quality health care. our mission is to provide holistic care whether inpatient, outpatient, emergency patient or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Powell County Memorial Hospital Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Beaverhead Trails Coalition. 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 26 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 82 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 RIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MONTANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY WOOD BANK MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSHOPPER VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY LITERACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Amazonsmile 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 Pioneer Federal Community Foundation Inc 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.
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
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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