· Private foundation
The Wisner Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY CO-ORDINATED CHILD CHILD C | $100,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ VALLEY OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION INC | $31,680 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WHITEHALL COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC | $27,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOUSE OF NORMAN INC | $25,000 |
| BUTTE SPIRIT CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GOLD JUNCTION PRESENTS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- BSBUTTE SPIRIT CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +465%
- CHChildren's House of Norman Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +16%
- BEButte Emergency Food Bank2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MTMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +58%
- MTMONTANA TROUT UNLIMITEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +196%
- WAWHITEHALL AREA FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $1k
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
The montana conservation voters education fund educates, engages, and empowers all montanans to protect our clean air, clean water, public lands, and democracy.
Public Education.
PCEC works with our community to safeguard the land, water, wildlife, and people of Yellowstone's northern gateway through grassroots organizing and community advocacy.
Butte Environmental Council's Mission is to protect and defend the land, air, and water of Butte County and the surrounding region through action, advocacy, and education.
The foundation works to strengthen the economy of gallatin county, montana through local business development activities in an effort to attract, retain and grow jobs and businesses throughout gallatin county.
Montana center for the arts purpose is to nurture, promote and expand cultural engagement and opportunity in our region. through collaboration with the community at large, and in partnership with the area's diverse cultural and educational…
Southwest Montana Community Health Center is guided by its Mission to "Inspire Hope and Empower Wellness by Providing Access to Comprehensive Healthcare".
Promoting community affiliation and civic responsiblilty for people of all ages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Cruz Valley Opportunities in Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 SANTA CRUZ VALLEY OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BUTTE SPIRIT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's House of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Butte Emergency Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MONTANA TROUT UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Border Community Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds GVR Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Gold Junction Presents Association Inc ↗
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 · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wisner Family 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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