· Private foundation
The Jesse A Cole MD Charitable Foundation
Its FY2020 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTTE RESCUE MISSION | $3,700 |
| BUTTE EMERGENCY FOOD BANK | $3,700 |
| ANACONDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,350 |
| BUTTE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANACONDA | $1,700 |
| DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY | $1,700 |
| BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC | $1,700 |
| ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE | $1,700 |
| JEFFERSON VALLEY MUSEUM INC | $1,650 |
| BARRETT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,300 |
| WHITEHALL COMMUNITY CENTERINCORPORATED | $1,300 |
| BUTTE KIWANIS SUNSHINE CAMP CORPORATION | $1,300 |
| SAFE SPACE INC | $1,000 |
| ACTION INC | $850 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC | $850 |
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 (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BRButte Rescue Mission4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +160%
- BEButte Emergency Food Bank4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANACONDA4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $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.
Southwest Montana Community Health Center is guided by its Mission to "Inspire Hope and Empower Wellness by Providing Access to Comprehensive Healthcare".
Local economic development projects and business development to promote business relocation and expansion as well as start up in the area. providing small business with low interest loans.
None
A community focused organization of caring volunteers who efficiently raise and allocate funds for qualified providers through identification and communication of local needs.
To improve community health and quality of life.
Provide free information & referral services to butte county.
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.
Butte Home Health and Hospice exists to serve our community by helping individuals live safely at home with comfort, independence, and dignity. We are committed to delivering the highest standards of care, grounded in compassion,…
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds Butte Emergency Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF ANACONDA ↗
- Who funds ANACONDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE ↗
- Who funds DEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTE KIWANIS SUNSHINE CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUTTE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF BUTTE ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS - GOODWILL NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Barrett Hospital Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds BUTTE AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Space Inc ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Butte Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN GIRL CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · James and Chloe Gilman Charitable Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Paul Clark Home · United Way of Butte and Anaconda · Montana Healthcare Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company 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 Jesse A Cole MD Charitable 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.