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The Louvin 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION- BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| MONTANA RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY | $12,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| FAITH EVANGELICAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE | $7,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $7,500 |
| YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| BIKENET DBA BILLINGS TRAILNET | $2,500 |
| BILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| ANGELA'S PIAZZA INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +63% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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; $50k 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
- MRMONTANA RESCUE MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +63%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID YELLOWSTONE VALLEY8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +120%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SJSt John's Foundationone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -14%
- MCMT CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS STUDENTSone grant, 2021 · $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.
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
Caring people, preparing youth for life.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Yellowstone casa is a non-profit organization whose mission is to train and provide volunteers to represent the interests of abused and neglected children in the yellowstone county court system. these court appointed special advocate…
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
Watson children's shelter is dedicated to providing a safe, nurturing, environment for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment or family crisis.
Established in 1997, Yellowstone Recovery was founded to provide a place and a plan for indigent men and women who suffer from the diseases of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Our primary purpose is to help men and women achieve sobriety.
Family promise of gallatin valley in montana is a non-profit organization working with our community to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. we provide prevention services before families reach a…
To address the needs of yellowstone county and to improve lives by connecting and collaborating for a thriving community.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Providing lifelong sanctuary to non-releasable greater yellowstone ecosystem wildlife while providing a message of education and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yellowstone River Parks Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MID YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE RIVER PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELAS PIAZZA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds St John's 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Mkm Foundation Inc · Brosovich Family Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
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 Louvin 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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