· Private foundation
The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH HOMES | $51,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $35,000 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MISSOULA COUNTY | $8,000 |
| MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $7,500 |
| SUMMIT CAREER CENTER | $7,500 |
| YWCA | $7,500 |
| WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC | $7,500 |
| SANDERS CO COUNCIL ON AGING | $7,000 |
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, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 13 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $337k · revenue +49%
- YHYOUTH HOMES8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +11%
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- NLNORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -84%
- MBMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +138%
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM FOREST SERVICE HSTRYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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 state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy
To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.
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.
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.
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Missoula County and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 126 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 UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WRITING COACHES OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER 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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Missoula Community Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
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 Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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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