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Pleiades Foundation

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$300kFood & Nutrition$87kArts & Culture$59kAnimals$35kEmployment$33kHealth$25kHuman Services$22kPhilanthropy$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOULA FOOD BANK$7,500
CITIZENS FOR A WEED FREE FUTURE$7,500
METHOW CONSERVANCY$7,000
MONTANA LAND RELIANCE$5,000
THE BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE$5,000
MISSOULA ART MUSEUM$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
METHOW VALLEY FAMILY HOME CENTER$3,000
GARDEN CITY HARVEST$2,500
FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST$2,500
RAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES$2,000
SAN JUAN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL GUILD$1,000
MCT$1,000
WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE$1,000
NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 9%THE COVE: $5k → 17%ROOM ONE: $2k → 17%ROOM ONE: $1k → 17%ROOM ONE: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$653k · 31 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
14

Total granted

$653k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+24%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TM
    THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +248%
  • MA
    MISSOULA ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +94%
  • WS
    WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TM
    TRUST MONTANA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -57%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • JW
    JAMES WELCH NATIVE LIT FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
2
Bitterroot Water Partnership

BWP leads reliable and intentional conservation initiatives that promote and provide clean, ample water for people and habitats by working with key partners and our communities

Environment
3
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
4
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
5
Public Land Water Access Association

The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.

6
Montana Association of Conservation Districts

To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.

7
Flathead Land Trust

Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…

Environment
8
Montana Trout Unlimited

To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.

Recreation & Sports
9
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
10
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group

To help keep ranches in the madison valley viable and promote good stewardship, promote open space, and healthy way of life that has western values and clean water and wildlife habitate and healthy ranchlands.

Environment
11
Watershed Restoration Coalition for the

The organization is dedicated to restoring water quality, fisheries, and wildlife, and protecting the agricultural heritage and open space of the upper clark fork river basin of southwest montana. the organization pursues these goals by…

Environment
12
Wood River Land Trust Co

The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methow Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Pool. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%50%20–35yr20%27%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%66%20–35yr20%24%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
10%
473/4,761

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITIZENS FOR A WEED FREE FUTURE INC — $55,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR A WEED FREE FUTURE INCIndividual grant recipient — $44,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $42,409 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTWISP WORKS — $32,500 · OtherTWISP WORKSTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 · OtherTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INCYWCA — $14,000 · OtherTHE UM FOUNDATION — $14,000 · OtherRAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES — $16,500 · OtherClassroom in Bloom — $13,000 · Other+23 more — $74,135 · Other+23 moreTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $48,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCEWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $38,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EX…FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST — $25,499 · EnvironmentFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUSTBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INCHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $15,500 · EnvironmentHIGH COUNTRY NEWS+3 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentMETHOW CONSERVANCY — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentMETHOW CO…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $23,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA …GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $18,000 · Food & NutritionGARDEN CI…SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD — $16,000 · Food & NutritionSAN JUAN …MISSOULA ART MUSEUM — $45,500 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $16,500 · Community ImprovementTRUST MONTANA INC — $8,000 · Community Improvement
Other$323,744Environment$157,499Youth Development$57,500Food & Nutrition$57,000Arts & Culture$45,500Health$25,000Community Improvement$24,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETHOW CONSERVANCY — $57,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $48,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA ART MUSEUM — $45,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $38,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST — $25,499 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $18,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES — $16,500 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $16,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD — $16,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetClassroom in Bloom — $13,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTRUST MONTANA INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Land Institute — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM GARDENS — $3,635 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetRoom One — $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRanchers Stewardship Alliance — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumanities Montana — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissoula Catholic Schools Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROXY THEATER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 METHOW CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE
  • Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE
  • Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST
  • Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES
  • Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL
  • Who funds SAN JUAN ISLANDS ARGRICULTURAL GUILD
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS
  • Who funds Classroom in Bloom
  • Who funds TRUST MONTANA INC
  • Who funds The Land Institute
  • Who funds THE COVE
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC
  • Who funds FREEDOM GARDENS
  • Who funds Room One
  • Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION
  • Who funds Friends of the Pool

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.

The William H & Margaret M Wallace FoundationMT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William H & Margaret M Wallace Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Treacy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · Merlin Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The Kendeda Fund · Community Foundation of Ncw

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 Pleiades 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    8report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pleiades Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pleiades 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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