· Private foundation
The Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| BRIDGERCARE | $30,000 |
| BROCKWAY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
- TITHRIVE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue -26%
- BCBelgrade Community Library Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue -77% · 30% of their budget
- EMEisenhower Medical Center Fdn.2× · 2020–2021 · $128k
Funded once
- HCHELP CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue -50%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue +0%
- MTMontana Theatreworks Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +5%
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.
The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.
Southwest Montana Community Health Center is guided by its Mission to "Inspire Hope and Empower Wellness by Providing Access to Comprehensive Healthcare".
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.
To promote social, recreational, cultural, nutritional, educational, and health-oriented activities among senior citizens of bozeman, montana and the surrounding areas.
The bozeman area chamber of commerce, representing its membership, advocates economic vitality, high quality of life and preservation of the competitive enterprise system through leadership, vision and communication.
To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.
Provide food for individuals in need
Humanities Montana serves communities through stories and conversation. We offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans diverse history, literature, and philosophy.
To preserve and protect documents and artifacts relevant to the history of gallatin county and the surrounding area, and to avail these artifacts and documents in the gallatin history museum, located at 317 west main street, bozeman, mt…
Our mission is to promote mental wellness in teton valley by providing outreach, education, and connection to services.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
The mission statement of Boulder Community Housing Organization is to provide quality, affordable homes and foster thriving communities. They aim to create a diverse, inclusive, and sustainable Boulder by offering affordable housing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgercare and the most unlike its peers is Belgrade Community Library Foundation. 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 22 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 THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Belgrade Community Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOZEMAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Montana Theatreworks Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGERCARE ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROCKWAY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Gilhousen Family Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · One Valley Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Town Pump Charitable 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 Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation Montana 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.