· Private foundation
The Bentley 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter | $100,000 |
| Adaptive Performance Center | $50,000 |
| Child Bridge | $20,000 |
| Catalyst for Change | $20,000 |
| Horses Spirit Healing | $5,000 |
| Community Leadership & Development Inc | $5,000 |
| The Big J Show Cares | $5,000 |
| Red Lodge Community Foundation | $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 (FY20–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 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 FY2025, 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
- APADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $283k · revenue +240%
- YVYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER5× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +303%
- CBCHILD BRIDGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FUFromberg United Methodist Churchone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HFhabitat for humanityone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
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.
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
Caring people, preparing youth for life.
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Youth dynamics provides family focused behavioral health treatment founded on the principles of an actively caring and trauma sensitive culture in which people can realize their full potential.
To provide safe housing for homeless pregnant teens and teenage mothers.
The center for restorative youth justice (cryj) works to actively engage youth, victimes, families, communities in restorative programming that interrupts cycles of harm. our programs create opportunities for at-risk youth to deepen…
To provide a safe and stable living environment for men in early recovery. we are a peer driven therapeutic community with a focus on equine-related employment opportunities.
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Child & Family Services provides a wide continuum of outpatient services for children and thier families with behavioral/mental health needs, in aspiration of fulfilling the family's individualized goals. Right Turn provides transitional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Big J Show Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BIG J SHOW CARES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL K RANCH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADULLAM HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG BUDDIES INC ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Harnish Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · The Martin Family 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 Bentley 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.