· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITIZENS FOR A WEED FREE FUTURE | $7,500 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $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 |
| FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| GARDEN CITY HARVEST | $2,500 |
| RAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES | $2,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY NEWS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| FARM CONNECT MONTANA | $1,000 |
| SAN JUAN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL GUILD | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST 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 METHOW VALLEY CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pleiades Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pleiades Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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