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The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 at a glance

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The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$834kHuman Services$660kCommunity Improvement$647kEnvironment$639kCrime & Legal$483kFood & Nutrition$463kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $228k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOLFE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL$70,000
MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$54,500
KNOX COUNTY G R HAMPTON$53,000
SALMON WHITEWATER PARK ASSOCIATION$50,000
KENTUCKY SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$45,000
PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC$40,000
COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC$40,000
WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS$40,000
HARLAN COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$40,000
CLINTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$40,000
SHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION$40,000
BOYD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$40,000
RED BIRD MISSION INC$40,000
PERRY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$40,000
THRESH INC$30,000
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 (FY19–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IDAHO PERIOD PROJECT INC: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $25k → 11%CENTER POLE: $20k → 23%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE PALOUSE: $20k → 16%CENTER POLE: $20k → 23%CENTER POLE: $15k → 23%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10k → 15%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $10k → 7%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $40k → 29%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20k → 11%IDAHO PERIOD PROJECT INC: $5k → 8%SAFE HARBOR: $10k → 18%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $40k → 29%SNQWEYLMISTN: $10k → 18%CASA OF LAKE COUNTY: $10k → 18%EMPOWER MT: $20k → 9%EMPOWER MT: $20k → 9%EMPOWER MT: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
NY
OR
IN
CA
KY
VA
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 109 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

109 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
156

Total granted

$6.8M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+32%

Still filing today

51%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SM
    STEELE MEMORIAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $505k · revenue +46% · 83% of their budget
  • MN
    MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +8%
  • PD
    PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +377%

Funded once

  • LC
    LESLIE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CC
    CUMBERLAND COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative

To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports
5
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc
Civil Rights
6
Scenic Montana Trails
—
7
Montana Policy Action Inc

To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy

Social Science
8
Montana Business Leadership Council

The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…

Community Improvement
9
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
10
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
11
Prickly Pear Land Trust

To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.

Environment
12
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Council of Idaho Inc; the most unlike its peers is Richland County Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 309 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/144
Grantees still filing
93/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEELE MEMORIAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION: $505,000 · OtherSTEELE MEMORIAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION+150 more: $6,812,800 · Other+150 moreMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · Community ImprovementPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $110,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · Community ImprovementHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC: $49,000 · Community ImprovementARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementRED ANTS PANTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION: $96,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $80,000 · EducationLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $75,000 · EducationUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $75,000 · EducationIdaho State University Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationFARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY: $25,000 · EducationNKWUSM: $25,000 · EducationHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationThe Trust for Montana Libraries: $20,000 · EducationTHRESH INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCROW LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePiikani Lodge Health Institute: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFree Verse Project: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK COALITION: $80,000 · EnvironmentSALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentSagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentIDAHO COALITION OF LAND TRUSTS: $25,000 · EnvironmentBeaverhead Trails Coalition: $20,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · EnvironmentFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentNIMIIPUU PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT: $20,000 · EnvironmentCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCenter Pole: $55,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MT: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNAMI IDAHO: $25,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO PERIOD PROJECT: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE PALOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER HELENA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Crime & LegalMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $55,000 · Crime & LegalUPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $48,000 · Crime & LegalPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalFRONT RANGE CASA GAL INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalMEN'S SECOND CHANCE LIVING: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$7,317,800Community Improvement$484,000Education$451,000Arts & Culture$430,000Environment$360,000Human Services$320,000Crime & Legal$268,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEELE MEMORIAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION: $505,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $110,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSALMON WHITEWATER PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetLEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION: $96,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetKENTUCKY SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTHRESH INC: $85,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetTAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC: $85,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCLARK FORK COALITION: $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetChief Joseph Foundation: $78,000 over 4y, 53% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHOMPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $55,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $55,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetWINNETT ACES INC: $55,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCenter Pole: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBITTERROOT ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS RESOURCE: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $50,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPocatello Free Clinic: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetEMPOWER MT: $50,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC: $49,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $48,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetKentucky Humanities Council Inc: $47,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCROW LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCODE GIRLS UNITED: $45,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED BIRD MISSION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSALMON VALLEY STEWARDSHIP INC: $40,000 over 2y, 5.6% 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.

  • Who funds STEELE MEMORIAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SALMON WHITEWATER PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEMHI REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THRESH INC ↗
  • Who funds TAMARACK GRIEF RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST SOUTH-CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Chief Joseph Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…Town Pump Charitable …Headwaters Health Fou…Treacy FoundationSample Foundation IncFirst Interstate Banc…The High Stakes Found…Otto Bremer TrustGianforte Family Char…Montana Healthcare Fo…The Arthur M Blank Fa…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT92.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Healthcare Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family 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 Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report 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.
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How do I get to The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004?

Find your warmest path to The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 309 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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