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Selah Charitable Trust

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$140kReligion$124kEnvironment$73kAnimals$21kFood & Nutrition$17kArts & Culture$15kInternational$12kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$604k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - GREAT FISH CHALLENGE$14,000
FLATHEAD LAKERS$4,000
CAMP SPALDING$2,500
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$2,500
FEAST WORLD KITCHEN$2,500
WILD WONDER FOUNDATION$2,000
YMCA$1,000
WEST SHORE FOOD BANK$1,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
BLACKFOOT CHALENGE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $30 → 11%CHILD BRIDGE: $4k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 33% of Selah Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Selah Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$297k · 27 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
36

Total granted

$297k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+8%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsReligionFood & NutritionEducationInternationalOther
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

  • TB
    The Big Table
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +197%
  • FL
    FLATHEAD LAKERS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +28%
  • CS
    Camp Spalding
    7× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AR
    A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +75%
  • NY
    NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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
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
2
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
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

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.

Environment
5
Montana Freshwater Partners Inc

To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.

Environment
6
Montana Wilderness Association

Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.

Environment
7
Montana Trout Unlimited

To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.

Recreation & Sports
8
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
9
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
10
Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment
11
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Five Valleys Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Side By Side. 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

34 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. 34 of the 67 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $19,500 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 · OtherNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYGLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE: $14,000 · OtherGLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALEIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEIDSVOLD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12,250 · OtherEIDSVOLD LUTHERAN CHURCHSEEDS OF HOPE: $12,000 · OtherSEEDS OF HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherFLATHEAD LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP: $6,800 · Other+39 more: $74,970 · Other+39 moreWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $83,100 · PhilanthropyWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN…The Big Table: $56,000 · PhilanthropyThe Big TableFLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $39,000 · EnvironmentFLATHEAD LAKERS INCA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA: $20,000 · EnvironmentA ROCHA USA INC A RO…FLATHEAD LAND TRUST: $12,000 · EnvironmentFLATHEAD LAND TRUSTWild Wonder Foundation: $8,000 · EnvironmentWild Wonder Foundati…BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentCamp Spalding: $20,000 · ReligionSIDE BY SIDE: $3,058 · ReligionEMMAUS ENCOUNTER: $3,000 · ReligionMONTANA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · AnimalsTrap Free Montana Inc: $2,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA: $2,000 · AnimalsWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $11,500 · InternationalUNKNOWN NATIONS: $750 · InternationalWEST SHORE FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$181,520Philanthropy$139,100Environment$88,000Religion$26,058Animals$21,000International$12,250Food & Nutrition$7,000

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 budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $83,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Big Table: $56,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $39,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCamp Spalding: $20,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE: $14,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFLATHEAD LAND TRUST: $12,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWild Wonder Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWEST SHORE FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $3,840 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE: $3,058 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEMMAUS ENCOUNTER: $3,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTERN MONTANA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING ART OF MONTANA: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNKNOWN NATIONS: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOYS TO BLACKTAIL TRAILS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Big Table ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Camp Spalding ↗
  • Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
  • Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
  • Who funds Wild Wonder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WEST SHORE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS ENCOUNTER ↗
  • Who funds HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Feast Collective ↗
  • Who funds Montana Environmental Information Center ↗
  • Who funds Trap Free Montana Inc ↗

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.

Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The Kendeda Fund · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · The Angora Ridge Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Applied Materials 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 Selah Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Selah Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • George Fox University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 67 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-PF 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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