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The Angora Ridge Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $105,000 |
| ACLU OF MT FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $50,000 |
| DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION | $39,000 |
| MONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $15,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK | $14,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| POINTE BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| LAND TO HAND | $9,750 |
| POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE | $7,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES | $5,000 |
| POWDERED SOUL | $5,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
85 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- MIMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +252% · 50% of their budget
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +112%
- NVNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $146k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESone grant, 2023 · $90k
- OCOUTDOOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSone grant, 2024 · $77k · 77% of their budget
- MLMONTANA LAND TO HANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +57%
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 montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
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.
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
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.
Wild montana action fund builds the political power necessary for protecting and conserving public lands and wild places across the state by elevating the voices of montanans who cherish our outdoor way of life.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
Organization is dedicated to protecting the people, forests, water and wildlife in the west
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 154 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 MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Hartwick College ↗
- Who funds POWDERED SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD MT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA LAND TO HAND ↗
- Who funds KALICO ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE ↗
- Who funds DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · Bayne Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Roundup for Safety Inc · Tamarack Foundation Inc · James & Wanda Hollensteiner Fdn Lisa Mary Hollensteiner · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Ammon 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 The Angora Ridge 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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