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Rapp Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$529k
Granted FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$397kArts & Culture$391kHousing & Shelter$262kAnimals$207kHuman Services$204kRecreation & Sports$179kPublic Safety & Disaster$166kOther$0
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k82 grants · $234k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $294k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$47,584
HAMILTON School District$35,799
CITY OF HAMILTON$32,500
TELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC$25,000
BITTERROOT LAND TRUST$24,900
STEVENSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$21,095
CORVALLIS BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOC$20,000
BITTERROOT HUMANE SOCIETY$19,393
BEAR$15,500
LOADS OF DIGNITY$11,500
NORTH VALLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,756
BITTERROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION AN$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RAVALLI CTY$10,000
CORVALLIS schools$8,427
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $2k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $2k → 9%FAMILY AID FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LOADS OF DIGNITY: $14k → 11%LOADS OF DIGNITY: $12k → 11%LOADS OF DIGNITY: $12k → 11%HAMILTON SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 11%YOUTH HOMES: $6k → 11%HAMILTON SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 11%YOUTH HOMES: $3k → 11%HAMILTON SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 11%HEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%HAMILTON SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 11%COMMODITY CENTER: $2k → 11%HEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 142 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

142 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
51

Total granted

$3.3M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

32%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BR
    BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +57%
  • BR
    BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +43%
  • HP
    HAMILTON PLAYERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FORT OWEN
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Back County Horsemen of Montana

To perpetuate the common sense use and enjoyment of horses in America's back country, roadless backcountry and wilderness areas. To work to ensure that public lands remain open to recreational stock use. To assist the various government…

Environment
3
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
4
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
5
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
6
Treasure County 89 Ers Inc

Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum

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7
Beartooth Recycling

Community Recycling Center

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8
Bitterroot Economic Development District Inc

Bitterroot economic development district incorporated (bredd, inc.) continues to assist the region with economic development by providing grant writing, grant administration, project development and management, economic gardening, and…

Community Improvement
9
Big Timber Community Food Bank

Area food bank distributions

Food & Nutrition
10
Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation
Human Services
11
Wildtorium

Wildtorium is an interactive children's museum dedicated to inspiring curiosity, creativity, and connection through hands-on exhibits and playful learning experiences. Our mission is to provide families in the Flathead Valley with engaging…

Arts & Culture
12
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is District Xi Human Resource Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sapphire Lutheran Homes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 209 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BITTERROOT HUMANE SOCIETY: $127,583 · OtherBEAR: $116,950 · OtherEMMA'S HOUSE: $102,653 · OtherSTEVENSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $93,033 · OtherHAMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $91,334 · OtherDARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $91,150 · Other+159 more: $2,041,650 · Other+159 moreBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $151,550 · EnvironmentBITTER RO…BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC: $90,567 · EnvironmentBITTER RO…BITTERROOT WATER PARTNERSHIP: $38,140 · EnvironmentBITTERROO…+3 more: $11,470 · EnvironmentHAMILTON PLAYERS INC: $47,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ST MARY'S MISSION INC: $43,011 · Arts & CultureDALY MANSION PRESERVATION TRUST: $28,710 · Arts & CultureMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureSTEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,253 · Arts & CultureBITTERROOT CELTIC SOCIETY: $8,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $58,500 · Animals1 Horse at a Time Draft Horse Rescue Inc: $24,000 · AnimalsWILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC: $17,285 · AnimalsRAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 · AnimalsFOX HOLLOW ANIMAL PROJECT: $5,000 · Animals+3 more: $7,500 · AnimalsCoding for Kids: $42,766 · EducationCORVALLIS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $27,210 · EducationRAVALLI HEAD START INC: $17,439 · EducationWRITING COACHES OF MONTANA: $13,500 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationLoads of Dignity: $37,500 · Human ServicesHAMILTON SENIOR CENTER INC: $17,600 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMES: $9,000 · Human ServicesHEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,300 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $56,500 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SHELTER OF THE BITTERROOT INC: $13,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,664,353Environment$291,727Arts & Culture$171,374Animals$117,285Education$102,415Human Services$80,900Housing & Shelter$69,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBITTER ROOT LAND TRUST: $151,550 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetBITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC: $90,567 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $58,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $56,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetHAMILTON PLAYERS INC: $47,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPLAY LIKE ROBERT FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetHISTORIC ST MARY'S MISSION INC: $43,011 over 8y, 14% of budgetBITTER ROOT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $40,480 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetBITTERROOT WATER PARTNERSHIP: $38,140 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetLoads of Dignity: $37,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetFLORENCE ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $34,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAPPHIRE LUTHERAN HOMES INC: $33,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDALY MANSION PRESERVATION TRUST: $28,710 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCORVALLIS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $27,210 over 4y, 22% of budget1 Horse at a Time Draft Horse Rescue Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetHART TO HEART MINISTRIES INC: $22,600 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $22,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDARBY BREAD BOX: $21,200 over 8y, 17% of budgetHAMILTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,700 over 8y, 17% of budgetCORVALLIS BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetBIKE WALK MONTANA INC: $18,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetHAMILTON SENIOR CENTER INC: $17,600 over 4y, 12% of budgetRAVALLI HEAD START INC: $17,439 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILD SKIES RAPTOR CENTER INC: $17,285 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetBITTERROOT EARLY LEARNING NETWORK: $15,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetWRITING COACHES OF MONTANA: $13,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetStevensville Pantry Partners Food Bank: $13,300 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY SHELTER OF THE BITTERROOT INC: $13,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetWINGS PROGRAMS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBitterroot CASA Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH HOMES: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBITTERROOT CELTIC SOCIETY: $8,400 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFORT OWEN RANCH FOUNDATION: $8,377 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSAPPHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $7,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $7,070 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetStevensville Main Street Association Inc: $5,638 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetDISTRICT XI HUMAN RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Victory Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetRAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOX HOLLOW ANIMAL PROJECT: $5,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWESTERN MONTANA EQUINE RESCUE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetRavalli County Recycling Inc: $3,400 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,300 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds TELLER WILDLIFE REFUGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON PLAYERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLAY LIKE ROBERT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC ST MARY'S MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Coding for Kids ↗
  • Who funds BITTER ROOT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BITTERROOT WATER PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Loads of Dignity ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SAPPHIRE LUTHERAN HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds DALY MANSION PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CORVALLIS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Town Pump Charitable …Annie Maclay Leffingw…Headwaters Health Fou…Jane S Heman Foundati…Treacy FoundationThe High Stakes Found…Montana Community Fou…Gianforte Family Char…Louis L Borick Founda…The Bill & Rosemary G…First Interstate Banc…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT55.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Annie Maclay Leffingwell Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Louis L Borick Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rapp Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rapp Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    9report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rapp Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rapp Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 209 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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