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Sweet Grass Community Foundation
Build relationships and manage funds to focus, strengthen, and advance our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $433,357 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $546,025 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,668 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG TIMBER GRADE SCHOOL | $153,110 |
| SHEEPHERDER SQUARE FOUNDATION | $95,980 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $37,702 |
| BIG TIMBER AFTER SCHOOL CLUB | $25,360 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $20,593 |
| Sweet Grass Arts Alliance | $17,955 |
| CRAZY MOUNTAIN MUSEUM | $15,998 |
| SWEET GRASS COUNTY AMBULANCE | $14,773 |
| HEARTS & HANDS HOSPICE | $13,154 |
| Dornix Park | $13,025 |
| STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER | $8,362 |
| ASPEN | $7,210 |
| CRAZY PEAK CATTLE WOMEN | $5,124 |
| SG Chamber of Commerce | $5,011 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE SENIOR CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +95%
- SSSheepherder Square Foundation2× · 2022–2024 · $153k · revenue +169%
- PMPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $136k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BIG TIMBERone grant, 2018 · $45k
- MLMELVILLE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- B4BT 4-H AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
The sweet grass community health care foundation is in existence to provide support and donations to the medical facilities in the community of big timber montana.
To collect, preserve and interpret the history Glacier County
fire protection
Senior Center facility for the local Meals on Wheels production.
Promote local businesses in Sterling Kansas
To operate a museum and library open to the public
Providing meals and activities for senior citizens
Non-profit community library
Preserve History of Area
The Mission of the Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…
Provide a gathering place for area seniors to gather and socialize. Includes serving a weekly meal.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sweet Grass County Museum Society and the most unlike its peers is Big Timber Community Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 HOSPITALITY HOUSE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sheepherder Square Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS ARTISTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG TIMBER AFTER SCHOOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BIG TIMBER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COUNTY MUSEUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Big Timber Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST ↗
- Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Grass County Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
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: Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Park County Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Homestead Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sweet Grass Community 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.
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