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Run Wild Missoula Inc

Our mission is to empower and support runners and walkers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds in Missoula.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$183kRecreation & Sports$50kFood & Nutrition$41kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$22kEducation$21kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $82,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $103,543 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,043 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$781k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST$27,500
YOUTH HOMES$25,000
FRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS$20,000
MISSOULA FOOD BANK$10,000
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 (FY19–19, $17k) 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: $17k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 5 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$315k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • FV
    FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST
    6× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +132%
  • MF
    MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +2%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • YM
    YWCA MISSOULA
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -56%
  • AN
    ALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • CO
    CITY OF MISSOULA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Missoula Mountain Bike Coalition

Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.

Recreation & Sports
3
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
4
Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation

The Mission of MIST is to create transportation that is safe, equitable and environmentally sound, fits within the landscape and culture of a particular area, conserves resources, and honors justice, equity, diversity, inclusiveness,…

Public Benefit
5
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
6
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation

Dedicated to empowering community partners to achieve health care quality goals.

Health
7
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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8
Montana Conservation Corps Inc

Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.

Civil Rights
9
Montana Audubon

Wildlife and natural ecosystems to safeguard biological diversity for current and future generations.

Environment
10
Montana Food Bank Network Inc

Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Habitat for Humanity Missoula Inc

Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.

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12
Northwest Montana Community Land Trust Inc

Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Missoula; the most unlike its peers is All Nations Health Center 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $183,000 · EnvironmentFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUSTFRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INCYOUTH HOMES: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMESYWCA MISSOULA: $16,919 · Human ServicesYWCA MISSOULAMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $41,490 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FOO…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $20,752 · EducationCITY OF MISSOULA: $9,800 · OtherOpportunity Resources Inc: $5,000 · OtherALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$223,000Human Services$46,919Food & Nutrition$41,490Education$20,752Other$14,800Health$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $183,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $41,490 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetYOUTH HOMES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $20,752 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA MISSOULA: $16,919 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity Resources Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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…First Interstate Banc…Max and Betty Swanson…Rice Family FoundationDennis & Phyllis Wash…District XI Human Res…Missoula Community Fo…The Llewellyn Foundat…Louis L Borick Founda…Headwaters Health Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Montana Community Foundation IncMT19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · District XI Human Resource Council Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Louis L Borick Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Run Wild Missoula Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Run Wild Missoula Inc. 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Run Wild Missoula Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Run Wild Missoula 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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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