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The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$51k
Largest
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.

Human Services$996kArts & Culture$523kPhilanthropy$352kFood & Nutrition$278kHealth$162kYouth Development$155kCrime & Legal$93kEducation$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $184k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH HOMES$51,000
MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA$35,000
MONTANA FOOD BANK$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME$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
SUMMIT CAREER CENTER$7,500
WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC$7,500
YWCA$7,500
MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE$7,500
SANDERS CO COUNCIL ON AGING$7,000
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $35k → 9%SANDERS CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 17%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 12%PROMISE 686 INC: $5k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $35k → 9%PROMISE686: $3k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $10k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $8k → 9%CASA LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES: $4k → 18%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $8k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $8k → 9%CASA LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES: $4k → 18%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $6k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $6k → 9%CASA LAKE SANDERS COUNTIES: $4k → 18%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $10k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE INC: $10k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $8k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $8k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $6k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $5k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $5k → 18%CHILD BRIDGE: $5k → 18%YOUTH HOMES PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 9%YOUTH HOMES PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 9%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 9%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $8k → 9%EMPOWERMT: $5k → 9%EMPOWERMT: $3k → 9%MISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 9%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 61 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
50

Total granted

$2.5M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $337k · revenue +49%
  • YH
    YOUTH HOMES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +11%
  • MF
    MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • MB
    MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +138%
  • NL
    NORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -84%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM FOREST SERVICE HSTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

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Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
5
Missoula Mountain Bike Coalition

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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7
Montana Policy Action Inc

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

Social Science
8
Montana Budget and Policy Center

To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.

Public Benefit
9
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
10
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
11
Partnership Health Center Inc

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.

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12
Missoula Midtown Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Missoula County; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
45/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA OF MISSOULA MT: $165,000 · OtherYWCA OF MISSOULA MTYMCA: $100,000 · OtherYMCAMISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $85,500 · OtherMISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATREMISSOULA AGING SERVICES: $77,500 · OtherMISSOULA AGING SERVICESZOOTOWN COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER: $75,000 · OtherZOOTOWN COMMUNITY ARTS CENTERBUTTERFLY HOUSE: $75,000 · OtherBUTTERFLY HOUSEBoys and Girls Club of Missoula County: $48,000 · Other+76 more: $719,427 · Other+76 moreYOUTH HOMES: $216,300 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMESMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $87,500 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTAN…CHILD BRIDGE INC: $56,500 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE INCWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $45,458 · Human ServicesWATSON CHILDREN'S SH…PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR CHIL…Operation Warm Inc: $29,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc+6 more: $58,617 · Human Services+6 moreUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $337,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $106,500 · Food & NutritionMONTANA F…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $105,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA …GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC: $44,000 · Food & NutritionGARDEN CI…+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $47,500 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOU…MISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $28,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA …MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE: $28,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA …BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE: $27,500 · Arts & CultureBIG SKY F…MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $23,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA …STEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSTEVENSVI…MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA …BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc: $16,500 · Arts & CultureBITTERROO…Art Mobile of Montana: $13,600 · Arts & CultureArt Mobil…MAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthSUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS: $27,000 · HealthTAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC: $17,200 · HealthST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBarrett Hospital Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $5,000 · HealthSMILES ACROSS MONTANA: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $5,000 · HealthThe LifeGuard Group Inc: $55,510 · Crime & LegalSIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC: $9,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,345,427Human Services$538,375Philanthropy$367,000Food & Nutrition$258,000Arts & Culture$253,600Health$139,200Crime & Legal$64,510

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $337,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetYOUTH HOMES: $216,300 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $106,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $87,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $56,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe LifeGuard Group Inc: $55,510 over 3y, 17% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Missoula County: $48,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BALLET THEATRE: $47,500 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $45,458 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC: $44,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA ART MUSEUM: $28,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE: $28,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE: $27,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS: $27,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetMISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetNORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $23,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSTEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWRITING COACHES OF MONTANA: $19,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetTAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC: $17,200 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOME RESOURCE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBUTTE SPIRIT CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPartnership for Children: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetArt Mobile of Montana: $13,600 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF MISSOULA: $12,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCASA OF LAKE & SANDERS COUNTIES: $11,617 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRIALTO COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetPRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC: $9,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPromise686 Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER MT: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSANDERS CO COUNCIL ON AGING: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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 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 ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT FOR PARKINSONS ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds STEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WRITING COACHES OF MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT80.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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 126 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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