· Private foundation
Town Pump Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k543 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k72 grants · $992k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $561k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINSTREET UPTOWN BUTTE | $110,900 |
| MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MAINSTREET UPTOWN BUTTE | $90,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MAINSTREET UPTOWN BUTTE | $50,000 |
| ACTION INC | $40,000 |
| POVERELLO CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| TREASURE STATE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DEVILS BRIGADE CHAPTER 28 | $25,000 |
| EAST HELENA RODEO ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| THE WALL THAT HEALS - BUTTE | $25,000 |
| THE PRODUCER PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| PRICKLY PEAR FIREWORKS | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
759 repeat relationships — 404 still active in FY2024, 355 since wound down; 157 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k 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
- MUMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +62% · 57% of their budget
- BRButte Rescue Mission7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +160%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CECENTRAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF SILVER BOWone grant, 2022 · $100k
- GFGALLATIN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -82%
- MHMONTANA HISTORY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Our mission is to end hunger in the valley county, montana area through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. our vision is a montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.
Area food bank distributions
None
The mission of Wellness In Action is to improve community wellbeing by providing a network of mental and behavioral health resources to people who live or work in Big Sky.
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…
Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Bridger Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
417 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 417 of the 1,710 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Butte Emergency Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Billings Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds POLSON LOAVES AND FISH PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PINTLER PETS ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBBY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAGEBRUSH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS FISH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds TREASURE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tobacco Valley Food Pantry ↗
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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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 Town Pump 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.
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.