· Private foundation
Rossbach Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLATHEAD LAKE BIOLOGICAL STATION | $500 |
| FORWARD MT | $400 |
| CLARK FORK COALITION | $400 |
| ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $300 |
| MT NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $250 |
| FIVE VALLEY LAND TRUST | $250 |
| POVERELLO CENTER | $200 |
| MONTPIRG | $150 |
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, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +132% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CFCLARK FORK COALITION7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +57%
- FMFORWARD MT7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue ×33
- FVFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST7× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA - SCHOOL OF Lone grant, 2021 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +22%
- MAMISSOULA ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +95%
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.
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.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The montana public interest research group (montpirg) is a student directed non-partisan organization dedicated to creating positive change by educating, organizing, mobilizing, and empowering the next generation of civic leaders.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
The montpirg leadership fund is dedicated to educating and mentoring the next generation of civic leaders. through research and education, we empower citizens to be a strong voice for a clean and healthful environment, open and accountable…
To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.
Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Food Bank Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Missoula Family Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD MT ↗
- Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BURN STUDY GROUP dba Great Burn Conservation Alliance ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
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: The Llewellyn Foundation · The Thendara Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The William H & Margaret M Wallace Foundation · Merlin Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Rossbach 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.
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.