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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.

$19k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$8,126
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations The Stake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$11k14%
FY20217$22k29%
FY20209$25k44%
FY201912$32k25%
FY201813$24k54%
FY201710$21kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$89kEnvironment$31kHealth$23kCrime & Legal$22kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$14kCommunity Improvement$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Stake Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Park County: $18,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $17,613 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHuman Resource Development Council of District IX Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Gallatin United Way Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCounterpoint Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCasa of Montana Inc: $5,825 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetLegado Inc: $5,300 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Health Partners Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Willa Cather Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRise Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark County Environmental Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Park County Community FoundationMT30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Stake Foundation

How much does The Stake Foundation give?
The Stake Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $19,426 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Stake Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Environment (14%), Health (10%).
Who are The Stake Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Friends of Park County ($18k), Livingston Healthcare Foundation ($18k), Aspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network ($16k).
Does The Stake Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Stake Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Stake Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Park County Community Foundation, The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
Where is The Stake Foundation based?
The Stake Foundation is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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