· Private foundation
Solid Rock Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Solid Rock Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Park County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Solid Rock Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| PARK CNTY FRIENDS OF THE ARTS(PCFA) | $5,000 |
| ASPEN | $5,000 |
| COUNTERPOINT INC | $3,250 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL & SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY INC | $2,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| FAST BLACKFEET | $1,500 |
| LOAVES & FISHES OF LIVINGSTON | $1,500 |
| LIVINSTON ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| THE MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| MONTANA FREE PRESS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2021, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- LHLivingston Healthcare Foundation6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +65%
- MAMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC6× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +141%
- ASASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK3× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +706%
Funded once
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +40%
- LRLIVINGSTON ROTARY CLUB FNDTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PHPARK HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Montana center for the arts purpose is to nurture, promote and expand cultural engagement and opportunity in our region. through collaboration with the community at large, and in partnership with the area's diverse cultural and educational…
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
The organization's mission is to connect rural students, families, and community members to behavioral and mental health solutions while protecting their social well-being and fostering a resilience to thrive.
The purpose of the montana continuum of care coalition is to end homelessness in montana through effective leadership and collaboration. (to make homelessness in montana rare, brief and non-recurring)
The montana preservation alliance (mpa) saves and protects montana's historic places, traditional landscapes, and cultural heritage. we are the only statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing montanans with the resources…
The livingston depot foundation is a non-profit organization committed to enriching the lives of residents of livingston and surrounding, communities, and tourists to the yellowstone area by: 1. restoring, preserving and protecting the…
To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poverello Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Counterpoint Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Counterpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAST BLACKFEET ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PAYDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROW LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON CENTER FOR ART AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
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: Park County Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Glassybaby Foundation · The McNeely Foundation · The Stake 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 Solid Rock 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.