How much did SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

maintequipbooks

2019

equipmentequipbookshealthpioneer medical

2020

covid reliefequipmentmaterialsequipbookshealthpioneer medical

2021

equipmentequipsuppliesyouthbooksclinicpioneer medical

2022

improvementinvolvedindependentserfvices ageage olderolder orderorder keep

2023

childrenlegionmeeting placeplace membersimprovementfoodshelter

2024

shelterimprovementyouthtimberpioneer medicaleducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $26k
$10k–50k8 grants · $159k
$50k–250k2 grants · $249k

$15,998

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.4M · 22 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+231%

Still filing today

68%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthAnimalsOther

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

HH
HOSPITALITY HOUSE SR CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +94%
SG
SWEET GRASS COUNTY AMBULANCE
7× · 2018–2024 · $136k · revenue +67%
SG
Sweet Grass Arts Alliance
8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +321% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

CO
CITY OF BIG TIMBER
one grant, 2018 · $45k
ML
MELVILLE LUTHERAN CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $25k
B4
BT 4-H AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
one grant, 2018 · $14k

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.

Sweet Grass Community Health Care

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.

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Glacier County Historical Society

To collect, preserve and interpret the history of Glacier County and the surrounding area.

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Belgrade Senior Center

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…

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Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment

Fort Plain Senior Center Inc

Service to senior citizens

Human Services

Arts Along the Bighorns

Community meeting and recreation facility

Arts & Culture

Friends of the Longmont Public Library

The Friends of the Longmont Public Library fund all programs produced by the library.

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Historic Hayden Granary Inc

Community Improvement

Belgrade Community Library Foundation

Provides financial support for the community library by purchasing materials and supplies to continue general operations and programs.

Education

Beaverhead Senior Citizens Association

Provide a gathering place for area seniors to gather and socialize. Includes serving a weekly meal.

Human Services

Elkhorn Valley Historical Society

To connect people with the cultural and historical legacy of our region.

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Sweet Home Community Foundation

Directing grants to local non profits for the benefit of the community

Philanthropy

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.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,736,034Community Improvement$187,771Arts & Culture$172,590Education$166,282Health$136,035Youth Development$96,275Animals$60,315

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.

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.

Grace Jones Richardson TestamentaryNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 412042404 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sweet Grass Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sweet Grass Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sweet Grass Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SWEET GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sweet Grass Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph