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Soka 'Piiwa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$318kAnimals$36kArts & Culture$32kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$7kReligion$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE FISH SOCIETY$15,000
MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
WILD MONTANA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MONTANA ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CENTER$5,000
BADROCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRIGHT EYES CARE & REHAB CENTER INC: $3k → 13%BRIGHT EYES CARE & REHAB CENTER INC: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
MI
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OR
NJ
CO
VA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Soka 'Piiwa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Soka 'Piiwa Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$359k · 17 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$359k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+52%

Still filing today

65%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NF
    Native Fish Society Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +89%
  • WR
    WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • MT
    MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED
    2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • MT
    MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE TETON - CHOTEAU
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
2
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
3
Blackfoot Challenge Inc

The mission of The Blackfoot Challenge is to coordinate efforts that will conserve and enhance the natural resources and rural way of life in the Blackfoot Watershed for present and future generations.

Environment
4
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
5
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

8
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc

Upper missouri waterkeeper protects fishable, swimmable, drinkable water throughout the 25,000 square miles of montana's upper missouri river basin of montana. to accomplish this mission we actively engage with citizens, stakeholders and…

Education
9
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
10
The Salmonfly Project

In 2025, the salmonfly project advanced its mission to conserve aquatic insects and the ecosystems they support through expanded monitoring, research, and public engagement across the western unted states. we completed annual aquatic…

Animals
11
Montana Wilderness Association

Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.

Environment
12
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Bright Eyes Animal Shelter Inc. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL — $45,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCILTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYWILD MONTANA — $20,000 · OtherWILD MONTANARONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEIndividual grant recipient — $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED — $10,000 · OtherMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITEDFRIENDS OF THE TETON - CHOTEAU — $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TETON - CHOTEAUROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION — $6,500 · Other+6 more — $28,000 · Other+6 moreNative Fish Society Inc — $60,000 · AnimalsNative Fish Society IncWILD SALMON CENTER — $33,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTERMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $13,500 · AnimalsMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATIONBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $5,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSE…Montana Environmental Information Center — $22,500 · EnvironmentMontana Environmenta…ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT WEED ROUNDTABLE INC — $4,500 · EnvironmentROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT…MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTANA T…OLD TRAIL MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community ImprovementRanch Hope Inc — $5,000 · HealthBENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthBRIGHT EYES ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$171,000Animals$112,500Environment$77,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Arts & Culture$15,000Community Improvement$10,000Health$7,000Human Services$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNative Fish Society Inc — $60,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED — $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center — $22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD TRAIL MUSEUM — $15,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $13,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT EYES ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRanch Hope Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIEGAN INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT WEED ROUNDTABLE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Native Fish Society Inc
  • Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER
  • Who funds Montana Environmental Information Center
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds OLD TRAIL MUSEUM
  • Who funds MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL
  • Who funds BRIGHT EYES ANIMAL SHELTER INC
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
  • Who funds Ranch Hope Inc
  • Who funds PIEGAN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT WEED ROUNDTABLE INC
  • Who funds BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE

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.

PatagoniaorgCA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co · The Fanwood Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Soka 'Piiwa 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 27%
  • Wild Salmon Center49% of income from government
  • Native Fish Society Inc27% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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