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The Homestead Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$317kArts & Culture$295kHealth$124kRecreation & Sports$117kFood & Nutrition$48kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$8kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTHERNLIGHTS PARKCITY OF FROID MT$4,000
EAGLE MOUNT OF BOZEMAN$1,000
PRESERVE MONTANA$1,000
LOAVES AND FISHES OF LIVINGSTON$1,000
LIVINGSTON FOOD RESOURCE$1,000
COUNTY CUPBOARD INC$1,000
MONTANA PITTIE PROJECT$500
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%STANFORD OPEN: $1k → 12%THE CENTER POLE: $600 → 23%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%HEART OF MONTANA FARM IN THE DELL: $2k → 12%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $700 → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $700 → 9%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $600 → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $600 → 9%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $600 → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $600 → 9%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%HEART OF MONTANA FARM IN THE DELL: $1k → 12%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%PROJECT HOPE: $700 → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $600 → 10%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $500 → 9%PROJECT HOPE: $600 → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $500 → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $500 → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $500 → 10%K9 CARE MONTANA INC: $500 → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 63 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
34

Total granted

$903k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-8%

Still filing today

43%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • CC
    CARROLL COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $254k · revenue +14%
  • LH
    Livingston Healthcare Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +131%
  • LD
    LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • MH
    MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -37%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +48%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
4
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
5
Treasure County 89 Ers Inc

Preserving small town, local, historical assets - museum

—
6
Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports
7
Friends of the Bridger Public Library
Philanthropy
8
Sweet Grass Community Health Care Foundation

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.

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9
ZooMontana Inc

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.

Animals
10
Beartooth Recycling

Community Recycling Center

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11
Blaine County Wildlife Museum Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana History Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAGLE MOUNT OF BOZEMAN: $108,000 · OtherEAGLE MOUNT OF BOZEMANBUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST: $97,500 · OtherBUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST+65 more: $152,900 · Other+65 moreCARROLL COLLEGE: $254,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGECOLORADO ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationCOLORADO ACADEMYSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $11,000 · Education+4 more: $6,500 · EducationLIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureLIVINGSTON DEPOT…The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts: $27,499 · Arts & CultureThe Shane Lalani…MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMONTANA HISTORY …+5 more: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $100,000 · Human ServicesLivingston He…+7 more: $13,800 · Human Services+7 moreLOAVES AND FISHES: $5,400 · Food & NutritionBig Timber Community Food Bank: $3,400 · Food & NutritionDAWSON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3,400 · Food & NutritionCUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $3,400 · Food & NutritionCUSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY TABLE: $1,000 · Food & NutritionLivingston Healthcare: $10,500 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $3,000 · HealthBIG HORN COUNTY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthHOPE REINS: $500 · HealthCENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION: $6,418 · Philanthropy
Other$358,400Education$311,500Arts & Culture$143,499Human Services$113,800Food & Nutrition$16,600Health$15,000Philanthropy$6,418

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $254,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetLIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shane Lalani Center for the Arts: $27,499 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLivingston Healthcare: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION: $6,418 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $5,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $5,400 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBIGFORK ART AND CULTURAL CENTER: $3,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBig Timber Community Food Bank: $3,400 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDAWSON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3,400 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetProject Hope: $3,400 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $3,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hands in Hardin Inc: $2,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE INC: $2,400 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMILES CITY CONVENT KEEPERS: $2,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVELYN CAMERON HERITAGE INC EVELYN CAMERON FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLIVINGSTON MEALS ON WHEELS: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG HORN COUNTY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MONTANA FAMILY YMCA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET GRASS COUNTY MUSEUM SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BIG TIMBER CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCUSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY TABLE: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSTANFORD OPEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEARTOOTH HUMANE ALLIANCE: $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter Pole: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA PITTIE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE REINS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9 CARE MONTANA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBeaverhead Animal Shelter: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Big Timber Community Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds DAWSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Hope ↗
  • Who funds CUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO INC CO YELLOWSTONE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗

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.

Town Pump Charitable …Dennis & Phyllis Wash…First Interstate Banc…Montana Community Fou…Montana Food Bank Net…Gianforte Family Char…Park County Community…The Steele-Reese Foun…Foundation for Commun…Central Montana Found…Oro y Plata FoundationTreacy Foundation
Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Homestead Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Homestead Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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