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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.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$17kArts & Culture$12kEducation$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$3kRecreation & Sports$3kYouth Development$3kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $11,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$485k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINNETT ACES INC$11,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA MISSOULA'S GUTS: $1k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Red Ants Pants Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 71%.

Red Ants Pants Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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.

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Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
2
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.

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3
The Montana Stockgrowers Association Incorporated

The mission of the montana stockgrowers association, incorporated is to protect and enhance montana ranch families' ability to grow and deliver safe, healthy, sustainably produced beef to the world.

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Scenic Montana Trails
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The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
6
Montana Wilderness Association

Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.

Environment
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Wild Montana Action Fund

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.

Environment
8
Missoula Midtown Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
9
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.

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10
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
11
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
12
Montana Stockgrowers Foundation

Investing in montana's ranching community through leadership, education, and conservation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Land to Hand; 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.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · OtherCARTER COUNTY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETYWHEATLAND COUNTY: $3,100 · OtherWHEATLAND COUNTYMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · OtherMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INCTURNER FARMS: $1,700 · OtherTURNER FARMSGOLDEN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,690 · OtherGOLDEN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMAKE IT HAPPEN INC: $1,600 · OtherMAKE IT HAPPEN INCBIG FLAT GROCERY COOPERATIVE: $1,500 · OtherBIG FLAT GROCERY COOPERATIVEAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA: $1,500 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MONTANAWOMEN LEADING MT: $1,500 · OtherWOMEN LEADING MTMEAGHER COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherMISS RODEO MONTANA INC: $1,000 · OtherMEAGHER COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ART AND CULTURAL TRAIL: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $2,104 · Other+3 moreWINNETT ACES INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionWINNETT ACES INCMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA LAND TO HANDFAST BLACKFEET: $500 · Food & NutritionMontana State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationMontana Sta…FLATHEAD FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA: $600 · EducationFLATHEAD FU…CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL MO…TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureMeagher County 4H Council: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentYWCA MISSOULA: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$26,194Food & Nutrition$13,500Education$5,600Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$2,250Youth Development$1,500Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINNETT ACES INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY DEPARTMENT OF MONTANA: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEAGHER COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $704 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.

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.

Montana Community Fou…The Steele-Reese Foun…Gianforte Family Char…First Interstate Banc…Montana History Found…The High Stakes Found…Treacy FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Montana Community Foundation IncMT17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Red Ants Pants Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Red Ants Pants Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Red Ants Pants Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Red Ants Pants 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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 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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