· Private foundation
The Stake Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,126 |
| FRIENDS OF PARK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SHANE LALANI CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $1,000 |
| COUNTERPOINT | $1,000 |
| FARM TO SCHOOL | $500 |
| LEGADO | $300 |
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 (FY17–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Stake 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. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- LHLivingston Healthcare Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +65%
- ASASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +706%
- HRHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- LELIVINGSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $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 support economic and community development in Park County, Montana.
Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.
To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)
Northern Plains believes people working together can make a difference. Our mission is to organize Montanans to protect our water, land, air, and working landscapes; support a healthy, localized, and sustainable economy in farm and ranch…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livingston Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Counterpoint Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Park County ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Counterpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGADO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds RISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Park County Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE ↗
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: Park County Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · Glassybaby Foundation · McCRUM FUND INC · The Kendeda Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Dovana Foundation Inc · Freeman Family Foundation · The Ferris Foundation · The Rieschel 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 Stake 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.