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The Angora Ridge Foundation at a glance

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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.

$422k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.0MCivil Rights$910kEducation$488kEnvironment$438kFood & Nutrition$406kArts & Culture$260kRecreation & Sports$85kPhilanthropy$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
POINTE BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$10,000
LAND TO HAND$9,750
POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE$7,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$5,000
KIDS FOR THE BAY$5,000
COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA FOR KIDS INC: $500 → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $500 → 11%SPARROW'S NEST OF NW MT: $500 → 11%CASA FOR KIDS: $500 → 11%CASA FOR KIDS: $500 → 11%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $500 → 11%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%CASA FOR KIDS: $500 → 11%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%SPARROW'S NEST OF NW MT: $500 → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $50k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $35k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $16k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $15k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $15k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $15k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK NETWORK: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
HI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 85 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
63

Total granted

$3.6M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+44%

Still filing today

66%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +252% · 50% of their budget
  • MF
    MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +112%
  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $146k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
    one grant, 2023 · $90k
  • OC
    OUTDOOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2024 · $77k · 77% of their budget
  • NB
    NORTH BAY FIRE RELIEF
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
2
Scenic Montana Trails
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3
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

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.

Environment
4
Montana Wilderness Association

Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.

Environment
5
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
6
Wild Montana Action Fund

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.

Environment
7
Montana Trout Unlimited

To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.

Recreation & Sports
8
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center

Organization is dedicated to protecting the people, forests, water and wildlife in the west

Environment
9
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
10
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
11
Montana Association of Conservation Districts

To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
64/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU OF MT FOUNDATION: $832,000 · OtherACLU OF MT FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $336,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANAPOINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE: $133,500 · OtherPOINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORECOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: $90,000 · OtherACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $70,000 · Other+103 more: $565,319 · Other+103 moreMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $974,575 · Crime & LegalMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT+2 more: $10,500 · Crime & LegalMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $223,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $51,250 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL: $119,740 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $25,250 · EducationHartwick College: $18,000 · Education+2 more: $1,515 · EducationNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $146,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD: $8,500 · Human Services+4 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesOUTDOOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $77,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $13,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EnvironmentWHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 · Environment+11 more: $15,961 · EnvironmentDREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsMONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $21,600 · Recreation & SportsPOWDERED SOUL INC: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsSKOKIE NORTHSHORE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $8,334 · Recreation & Sports+5 more: $5,300 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,026,919Crime & Legal$985,075Food & Nutrition$275,750Education$254,505Human Services$171,500Environment$152,961Recreation & Sports$94,234

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $974,575 over 9y, 50% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $223,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $146,000 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL: $119,740 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTDOOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $77,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $51,250 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC: $42,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $25,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONTANA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $21,600 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC: $20,095 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOWDERED SOUL INC: $17,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKALICO ART CENTER: $14,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD: $8,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSKOKIE NORTHSHORE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $8,334 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMT MOUNTAIN MAMAS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING WHITEFISH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NW MONTANA: $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSonoma League for Historic Preservation: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLATHEAD LAND TRUST: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATE CHUTE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MONTANA LAND TO HAND ↗
  • 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 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 GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds The 5 Gyres Institute ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Whitefish Community F…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…First Interstate Banc…The High Stakes Found…Bayne Foundation IncMontana Community Fou…Roundup for Safety IncTamarack Foundation I…James & Wanda Hollens…Town Pump Charitable …The Applied Materials…The Ammon Foundation
Whitefish Community Foundation IncMT80.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Angora Ridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Angora Ridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Angora Ridge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Angora Ridge Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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