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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–20, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TMTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +248%
- MAMISSOULA ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +94%
- WSWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TMTRUST MONTANA INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -57%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- JWJAMES WELCH NATIVE LIT FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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
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.
The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
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…
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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 field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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