· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Plank Stewardship Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plank Stewardship Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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