· Private foundation
The James & Catherine Heitel 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
| MENTORKIDS USA | $1,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $350 |
| FLATHEAD SHELTER FRIENDS | $200 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $100 |
| INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE | $52 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +163% since the first grant, against +91% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MUMentorKids USA3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +31%
- MSMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue +198%
- WDWHITEFISH DOG PARKINC4× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SHSHEPHERDS HANDone grant, 2017 · $1k
- WCWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $800
- SHSKI HERITAGE CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Dazzle africa's mission is to partner with local organizations to provide programs in conservation, education and community development. the organization aims to ensure that future generations are self-sufficient and iconic african…
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Safeguard green lake by improving its water quality, protecting it from critical threats, and accelerating its return to a clean lake.
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
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.
We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdowell Sonoran Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEELEY LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH DOG PARKINC ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS AND CLARK HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DESERT FOOTHILLS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD SHELTER FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Whitefish Credit Union Association · Broussard Charitable Foundation Tr · American Express Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 James & Catherine Heitel 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.