· Private foundation
The William H & Margaret M Wallace Foundation
Its FY2024 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: 43% of THE WILLIAM H & MARGARET M WALLACE 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $419k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $80,000 |
| POWELL COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $30,000 |
| YWCA | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MONTANA | $25,000 |
| ST PATRICK HOUSE | $25,000 |
| WATSONS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES | $25,000 |
| MISSOULA CHILDRENS THEATER | $20,000 |
| MISSOULA YOUTH HOMES | $20,000 |
| CLARKFORK COALITION | $15,000 |
| GRANITE COUNTY CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
35 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MFMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $505k · revenue +38%
- MNMONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +35%
- RORAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +4% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- WMWESTERN MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -37%
- HEHELLGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $15k
- MAMISSOULA ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +163%
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 enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.
Our mission is to improve the welfare of raptors across montana through rehabilitation of injured birds, community education, and partnerships for raptor conservation and research.
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.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Natural History Center and the most unlike its peers is The Roxy Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds RAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds MCT INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
- Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GRANITE COUNTY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds A CAROUSEL FOR MISSOULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ROXY THEATER ↗
- Who funds GRANITE COUNTY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Pleiades Foundation · James G and Marcia H Valeo Charitable Fd · Jane S Heman Foundation Inc · Merlin Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Treacy 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 The William H & Margaret M Wallace 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.
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