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Markovich Family Charitable 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.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$150kHuman Services$141kHealth$79kFood & Nutrition$68kArts & Culture$65kCommunity Improvement$50kYouth Development$50kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$18kOther$114k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANITE COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION$20,000
MAINSTREET UPTOWN BUTTE INC$20,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN FOUNDATION$20,000
FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC$10,000
MISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$10,000
MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC$10,000
MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC$10,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION$10,000
WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION$10,000
MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE$7,000
MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED$6,000
PROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INC$5,000
WHITEFISH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $10k → 9%PHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $10k → 9%PHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%NURTURING CENTER INC: $5k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $5k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $10k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $17k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $17k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $3k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$676k · 26 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$676k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

96%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +41%
  • TU
    THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +464%
  • MF
    MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • MH
    MILE HIGH LITTLE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -30%
  • RO
    Reading Opens Your World Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • TN
    THE NURTURING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -52%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
3
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Scenic Montana Trails
—
5
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Missoula Midtown Foundation

Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.

Community Improvement
7
Montana Farm Bureau Foundation

The mission of the montana farm bureau foundation (mfbfo) is to support montana agriculture through education, research, and community support, with a special emphasis for the development of our youth.

Food & Nutrition
8
Montana Jaycees Foundation
—
9
Friends of Missoula Parks Inc

FMP is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of our community through the promotion and support of recreational spaces. We champion the development, maintenance, and conservation of parks, trails, and forestry in Missoula, Montana, and the…

Environment
10
Colt Family Foundation Montana
Philanthropy
11
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
12
Mineral County Community Foundation

The Mineral County Community Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to seeing the communities of Mineral County, Montana thrive. Through fundraising, investments, and grant writing, we identify needs in our communities and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Montana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mile High Little League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
486/3,796

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
18/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONT…THE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WE…WHITEFISH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationWHITEFISH SCHOOL DISTR…KALISPELL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationKALISPELL EDUCATION FO…Reading Opens Your World Inc — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $4,500 · EducationPHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesPHILIPSBURG ROTARY FO…MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA…GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $33,332 · Human ServicesGREATER MISSOULA FAMI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $8,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BAN…THE NURTURING CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc — $40,000 · OtherMainstreet Uptown Butte IncFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLL…GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE — $10,000 · OtherButte Emergency Food Bank — $10,000 · OtherColt Anderson Skills Camp — $25,000 · OtherColt Anderson Skills CampPROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INC — $15,000 · OtherPROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INCMISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSN — $10,000 · OtherFLATHEAD LAND TRUST — $15,000 · OtherFLATHEAD LAND TRUSTWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION — $11,000 · OtherFLATHEAD COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE INC — $15,000 · OtherFLATHEAD COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE…+8 more — $15,850 · Other+8 moreRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana — $50,000 · HealthRonald McDo…GRANITE COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthGRANITE COU…THE V FOUNDATION — $9,000 · HealthTHE V FOUND…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $47,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA F…FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $18,000 · Food & NutritionFLATHEAD F…GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $2,850 · Food & NutritionORPHAN GIRL CHILDRENS THEATRE — $50,000 · Arts & CultureORPHAN GI…MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE — $7,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA …BITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBITTERROO…DMG PRODUCTIONS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Education$149,500Human Services$141,332Other$206,850Health$79,000Food & Nutrition$67,850Arts & Culture$64,500Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetORPHAN GIRL CHILDRENS THEATRE — $50,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetMISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana — $50,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $47,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPHILIPSBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $33,332 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetColt Anderson Skills Camp — $25,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetGRANITE COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFLATHEAD COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWHITEFISH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFLATHEAD LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKALISPELL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetButte Emergency Food Bank — $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE — $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMILE HIGH LITTLE LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBITTERROOT PERFORMING ARTS COUNCIL INC formerly Performing Arts Company Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE NURTURING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $2,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDMG PRODUCTIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MONTANA INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMissoula Catholic Schools Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN CITY BALLET COMPANY — $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT OF COLUMBIA GARDENS CAROUSEL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Town Pump Charitable …First Interstate Banc…Whitefish Community F…Headwaters Health Fou…Montana Community Fou…The Bill & Rosemary G…Treacy FoundationMax and Betty Swanson…Gianforte Family Char…The High Stakes Found…Missoula Community Fo…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT43.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · The High Stakes Foundation · Missoula Community 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 Markovich Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Markovich Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Markovich Family Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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