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The Stake Foundation at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$8,126
FRIENDS OF PARK COUNTY$5,000
SHANE LALANI CENTER$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
COUNTERPOINT$1,000
MONTANA LAND RELIANCE$1,000
FARM TO SCHOOL$500
LEGADO$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $4k → 10%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $4k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $800 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Stake Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 93%.

The Stake Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 16 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$116k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+43%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    Livingston Healthcare Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +65%
  • AS
    ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +706%
  • HR
    HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • LE
    LIVINGSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Park Local Development Corporation Inc

To support economic and community development in Park County, Montana.

Human Services
3
Palouse Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
4
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
5
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
6
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
7
Save our Gallatin Front Inc
Environment
8
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
9
Slow Food Wind River

To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.

Food & Nutrition
10
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
11
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

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)

Environment
12
Northern Plains Resource Council

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livingston Healthcare Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $81,376 · PhilanthropyPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INCSHANE LALANI CENTER: $12,000 · OtherSHANE LALANI CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCounterpoint Inc: $6,000 · OtherCounterpoint IncCASA OF MONTANA INC: $5,825 · OtherCASA OF MONTANA INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS …Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLOBAL MIDWIFE FOUNDATION: $2,700 · OtherLIVINGSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS - PARK COUNTY: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $5,500 · Other+5 moreFriends of Park County: $18,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Par…LEGADO INC: $5,300 · EnvironmentLEGADO INCTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LA…WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $1,000 · EnvironmentPark County Environmental Council: $1,000 · EnvironmentLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $17,613 · Human ServicesLivingston He…HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURC…ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK: $16,000 · Crime & LegalLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $4,000 · Food & NutritionLIVINGSTON DEPOT FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRISE INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$88,876Other$51,525Environment$26,800Human Services$25,613Crime & Legal$16,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Arts & Culture$2,800Employment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $81,376 over 6y, 10% of 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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…The Arthur M Blank Fa…First Interstate Banc…Solid Rock Foundation…Glassybaby FoundationMcCRUM FUND INCThe Kendeda FundThe Community Foundat…The Dovana Foundation…Freeman Family Founda…The Ferris FoundationThe Rieschel Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Stake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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