· Private foundation
The Wall Family-Power Townsend 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE WALL FAMILY-POWER TOWNSEND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $309k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH | $75,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $55,385 |
| YWCA HELENA | $54,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $50,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME | $30,000 |
| SHODAIR | $25,000 |
| PRESERVE MONTANA | $20,000 |
| MARYSVILLE PIONEERS | $15,000 |
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $14,500 |
| HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $13,089 |
| CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- HAHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +236% · 80% of their budget
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL3× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
- YHYWCA HELENA2× · 2024–2025 · $59k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MVMONTANA VETERANS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue 0%
- MOMUSEUM OF MOUNTAIN FLYING-- MISS MONTANA TO NORMANDYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- LCLEWIS & CLARK COUNTY HERITAGE TOURISM COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Watson children's shelter is dedicated to providing a safe, nurturing, environment for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment or family crisis.
The mission of the western montana mental health center is to assist individuals and communities with the challenges of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders in order to achieve their highest quality of life in a…
Habitat for humanity is striving for a world where everyone has a decent place to live. our mission is, seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Helena and the most unlike its peers is Gods Love Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 34 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 HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Montana ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DYNAMICS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds East Helena Valley Rodeo Association ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds MONTANA VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GODS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Childrens Home ↗
- Who funds SW Montana Veterans Food Pantry & Services ↗
- Who funds WEST MONT ↗
- Who funds SPRING MEADOW RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HEALTH ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Treacy Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · McBride Family Foundation · Hauser Lake Home · Helena Area Community Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Wall Family-Power Townsend 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Wall Family-Power Townsend Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Wall Family-Power Townsend 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.