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The Appleseed Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $7,500 |
| SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ASUM CHILD CARE PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BITTERROOT EARLY LEARNING NETWORK | $2,000 |
| MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 53% 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
- GCGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC3× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +21%
- YHYOUTH HOMES3× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +11%
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +345%
Funded once
- YMYWCA MISSOULAone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -15%
- HIHOMEWORD INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +19%
- HEHAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
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.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Empowering young children and families along a path to their highest potential.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
Our mission is to empower and support runners and walkers of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds in Missoula. With a vibrant community of over 2,400 members, we provide a welcoming space for like-minded individuals to connect and explore…
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.
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
To provide quality childcare and educational development. fort courage is dedicated to providing services that are in the best interest of the child. the center supports and nurtures physical, emotional, social, cognitive and creative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Home Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hellgate Elementary Pta Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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 GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds BITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POWELL COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds HELLGATE ELEMENTARY PTA INC ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT AT PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds BITTERROOT EARLY LEARNING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE RANCH OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Missoula County · The Llewellyn Foundation · Louis L Borick 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 Appleseed 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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