· Private foundation
Plank Stewardship Initiative
We work to enhance the capabilities and livelihoods of those who manage and care for land and water in the northern great plains.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN IN RANCHING INC | $62,750 |
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $48,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $36,940 |
| QUIVIRA COALITION | $25,600 |
| CLEAR CREEK CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY WY CONSERVATION | $21,542 |
| MONTANA ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION | $11,350 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL | $6,500 |
| HOPA MOUNTAIN | $4,000 |
| RANCHERS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE | $3,866 |
| THUNDER BASIN GRASSLANDS PRAIRIE | $3,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY MT CONSERVATION | $2,800 |
| WINNETT ACES INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- QCQUIVIRA COALITION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +12%
- IAINTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +26%
- WAWINNETT ACES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- CCCROOK COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCEone grant, 2022 · $32k
- WSWYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +237%
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY FIRE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Advancing sustainability in the western area of the united states through a series of programs and activities designed to promote better ranching practices. a strong focus is to provide ranchers with the information, tools, technical…
Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.
Conserving colorado's western heritage and working landscapes for the benefit of future generations.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
Protect and restore ecological balance to nebraska grasslands.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Winnett Aces Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 WOMEN IN RANCHING INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WINNETT ACES INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOPA MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Ranchers Stewardship Alliance ↗
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 High Stakes Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Plank Stewardship Initiative 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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