· Private foundation
The Gram Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $24,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $17,000 |
| K9 CARE MONTANA INC | $15,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WARRIORS IN QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GETHSEMANE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BOZEMAN SENIOR SOCIAL CENTER INC | $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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 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
Culver Educational Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +69%- KCK9 CARE MONTANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +147%
- WQWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +93%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -9%- BHBozeman Health Deaconess Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +47%
- BSBOZEMAN SWIMMING CLUBone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
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 improve community health and quality of life.
Boulder Swim Teams mission is to create a fun safe supportive and challenging environment and to enable our athletes to excel at swimming and create lifelong bonds. We strive to develop excellent character producing not just strong…
Southwest Montana Community Health Center is guided by its Mission to "Inspire Hope and Empower Wellness by Providing Access to Comprehensive Healthcare".
The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.
To provide the opportunity and means for friends and neighbors to give financial support to Glendive Medical Center.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bozeman Deaconess Foundation and the most unlike its peers is K9 Care Montana Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds K9 CARE MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SENIOR SOCIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SWIMMING CLUB ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Gram 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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