· Private foundation
The Homestead Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHERNLIGHTS PARKCITY OF FROID MT | $4,000 |
| LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE | $1,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT OF BOZEMAN | $1,000 |
| COUNTY CUPBOARD INC | $1,000 |
| PRESERVE MONTANA | $1,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES OF LIVINGSTON | $1,000 |
| MONTANA PITTIE PROJECT | $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 (FY17–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +46% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CCCARROLL COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $254k · revenue +14%
- LHLivingston Healthcare Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +131%
- LDLIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- MHMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -37%
- FOFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +48%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Museum
Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum
To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.
The sweet grass community health care foundation is in existence to provide support and donations to the medical facilities in the community of big timber montana.
Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.
Community Recycling Center
To establish and operate the blaine county wildlife museum with the intent to provide quality wildlife museum exhibiting montana wildlife in their natural habitats, complete with audio and visual enhancement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana History Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beaverhead Animal Shelter. 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 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 100 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 CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds BIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAWSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Project Hope ↗
- Who funds BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Big Timber Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Park County Community Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Foundation for Community Vitality · Central Montana Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Treacy 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 Homestead 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.