· Private foundation
Reger Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BILLINGS FOUR SQUARE CHURCH | $7,000 |
| DOWN THE STRETCH RANCE | $6,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS GATHERING | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MONTANA RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| ALZHERIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BILLINGS FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHRUC | $1,000 |
| ZOO MONTANA | $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 (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +89% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SVST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $81k · revenue +117%
- ZIZooMontana Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +119%
- BSBILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +113%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- RPROSE PARK PTAone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -85%
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.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
Logan health shelby is a 21-bed 501(c)(3), non-profit, community critical access hospital located in shelby, montana. the hospital serves toole county and surrounding communities providing emergency care, acute care, skilled swing bed…
Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.
To support Bozeman Health Services by promoting community participation in and financial support of activities to improve community health and quality of life.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Stillwater hospital association is a rural integrated health care organization bringing together a physician clinic and hospital services to deliver quality coordinated care.
Bingham memorial hospital is committed to the pursuit of excellence in its endeavor to provide a continuum of quality, compassionate healthcare services for our residents and for visitors to bingham county, in the most effective and cost…
Logan health whitefish is a 501(c)(3), non-profit community critical access hospital located in whitefish, montana. the hospital and its outreach clinics serve flathead and lincoln counties, providing emergency care, acute and critical…
To provide high quality comprehensive healthcare services to children regardless of their ability to pay and to continuously improve the health and well-being of children.
We provide excellent care for all, healing body, mind and spirit.
To improve community health and quality of life.
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rose Park Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana Inc ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELAS PIAZZA INC ↗
- Who funds Down the Stretch Ranch ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ROSE PARK PTA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BILLINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Shriner's International ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
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 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · GE McDonald Foundation · Johnson Family Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington 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 Reger Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.