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Red Ants Pants Foundation
The RED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION is organized to develop and expand leadership roles for women, to preserve and support working family farms and ranches and to enrich and promote rural communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $11,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINNETT ACES INC | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of Red Ants Pants Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
Wild montana action fund builds the political power necessary for protecting and conserving public lands and wild places across the state by elevating the voices of montanans who cherish our outdoor way of life.
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.
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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…
To aid in the improvement of grazing land in montana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Land to Hand and the most unlike its peers is Meagher County 4H Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 WINNETT ACES INC ↗
- Who funds CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA LAND TO HAND ↗
- Who funds Meagher County 4H Council ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds MISS RODEO MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MEAGHER COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAST BLACKFEET ↗
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana History Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Red Ants Pants 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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