· Private foundation
Sample Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $358k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MISSOULA | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FORT ELLIS FIRE AND RESCUE | $18,178 |
| POVERELLO CENTER INC | $15,016 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| BEAR | $15,000 |
| BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES | $15,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT BOZEMAN | $15,000 |
| IMMANUEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| FARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY | $14,400 |
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 (FY20–24, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- YAYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM2× · 2021–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +75% · 69% of their budget
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +488%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +13%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MAMISSOULA ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +163%
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.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
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,…
To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
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.
A partnership of nonprofit groups devoted to improving the quality of life throughout Montana.
To build upon the economic base in flathead county by assisting business startups and expansion activities with resources and valuable connections. montana west delivers local business economic development services targeted to impact job…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Instrument Shop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 226 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MONTANA CASAGAL INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGERCARE ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The High Stakes 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 Sample Foundation Inc 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.
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 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.
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