· Private foundation
The Flathead Beacon Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k19 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLATHEAD VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| KIDSPORTS | $5,500 |
| FLATHEAD YOUTH HOME | $3,500 |
| SPARROWS NEST | $3,000 |
| ABBIE SHELTER | $3,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL FRIENDS ADVOCACY PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| MONTANA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION HOTLINE | $2,000 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| SWING FOR A SISTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FLATHEAD COUNTY | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- VFVIOLENCE FREE CRISIS LINE2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +95%
- FLFLATHEAD LAND TRUST4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue ×18
- MFMONTANA FREE PRESS2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +635%
Funded once
- KPKALISPELL PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $6k
- FOFriends of Bigfork Fire Departmentgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +200%
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.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.
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.
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.
Logan health whitefish is a 501(c)(3), non-profit community critical access hospital located in whitefish, montana. the hospital and its outreach clinics serve flathead and lincoln counties, providing emergency care, acute and critical…
The Flathead Food Bank strives to elimnate hunger in the Flathead Valley through collaborative partnerships creating effective solutions to connect and strengthen individuals, families and the community through access to healthy nutritious…
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
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Free Press and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Bigfork Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 KIDSPORTS ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE FREE CRISIS LINE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MY GLACIER VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bigfork Fire Department ↗
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: Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Roundup for Safety Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Flathead Beacon Foundation Inc 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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