· Private foundation
The Sprunk Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $170,000 |
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $50,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION | $5,000 |
| PRESS ON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $1,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $700 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON | $700 |
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 (FY20–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The Sprunk Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +42%- SPST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $221k · revenue +84%
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
- TFThayer Family Foundationone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -64%
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +169%
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.
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Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 61 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 WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crew Haven Corporation ↗
- Who funds Thayer Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZERO PROSTATE CANCER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC ↗
- Who funds HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds Armer Foundation for Kids ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way Worldwide · AbbVie Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon 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 Sprunk Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Disability Rights Oregon — 84% of income from government
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
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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