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Town Pump Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Town Pump Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
622
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$8.0MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MRecreation & Sports$1.1MHealth$891kPublic Safety & Disaster$707kOther$0
02FY2024 · 622 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k543 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $992k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $561k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE WALL THAT HEALS - BUTTE$25,000
EAST HELENA RODEO ASSOCIATION$25,000
TREASURE STATE FOUNDATION$25,000
DEVILS BRIGADE CHAPTER 28$25,000
PRICKLY PEAR FIREWORKS$25,000
THE PRODUCER PARTNERSHIP$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $18k → 9%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $15k → 12%K9S 4 MOBILITY: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $18k → 9%MADISON VALLEY CARING AND SHARING: $9k → 10%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 9%MADISON VALLEY CARING & SHARING INC: $9k → 10%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $12k → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 9%MADISON VALLEY CARING AND SHARING: $8k → 10%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $12k → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 9%MADISON VALLEY CARING AND SHARING: $8k → 10%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $12k → 12%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $15k → 9%PROJECT HOPE: $9k → 10%BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $12k → 12%RICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%RICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%PROJECT HOPE: $8k → 10%ACTION INC: $70k → 16%ACTION INC: $41k → 16%HELMVILLE COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $10k → 16%HELMVILLE COMMUNITY CLUB INC: $10k → 16%ACTION INC: $40k → 16%ACTION INC: $30k → 16%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%ACTION INC: $25k → 16%ACTION INC: $25k → 16%TUMBLEWEED: $10k → 9%ACTION INC: $20k → 16%ACTION INC: $20k → 16%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 17%ACTION INC: $20k → 16%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 17%ACTION INC: $16k → 16%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $12k → 17%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 17%ACTION INC: $15k → 16%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 17%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 17%TOBACCO VALLEY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 17%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $25k → 9%YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $16k → 9%EAGLE MOUNT - BILLINGS: $10k → 9%FAMILY SERVICE INC: $10k → 9%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
ND
WY
CA
UT
MD
AZ
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 759 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

759
786

Total granted

$18M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

28%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MU
    Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +62% · 57% of their budget
  • BR
    Butte Rescue Mission
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +160%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CE
    CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF SILVER BOW
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • GF
    GALLATIN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -82%
  • MH
    MONTANA HISTORY CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
4
Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation
Human Services
5
Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Big Timber Community Food Bank

Area food bank distributions

Food & Nutrition
7
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
9
Powell County Senior Citizens Inc

None

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10
Wellness in Action

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.

Human Services
11
Montana Business Leadership Council

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…

Community Improvement
12
Central Montana Childcare Alliance

Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

418 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 418 of the 1,710 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
142
Early backer (in before they grew)
380/418
Grantees still filing
266/418
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $1,324,900 · OtherMainstreet Uptown Butte IncButte Rescue Mission: $1,188,000 · OtherButte Rescue MissionCENTRAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $515,000 · Other+144 more: $7,293,200 · Other+144 moreMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $518,500 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BAN…Billings Food Bank Inc: $291,500 · Food & NutritionBillings Food Ba…HELENA FOOD SHARE INC: $287,500 · Food & NutritionHELENA FOOD SHAR…FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $232,500 · Food & NutritionFLATHEAD FOOD BA…MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $205,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FOOD BA…LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $155,000 · Food & NutritionLIVINGSTON FOOD …COLUMBIA FALLS FOOD BANK: $78,000 · Food & Nutrition+12 more: $465,500 · Food & Nutrition+12 moreACTION INC: $324,500 · Human ServicesACTION INCGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $151,000 · Human ServicesGREAT FALL…COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $121,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $103,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…Tobacco Valley Food Pantry: $78,500 · Human ServicesTobacco Va…BEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $78,000 · Human ServicesBEAVERHEAD…FAMILY SERVICE: $78,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…YWCA HELENA: $61,500 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $56,000 · Human ServicesRICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $53,000 · Human ServicesMadison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc: $48,000 · Human Services+8 more: $248,800 · Human Services+8 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $700,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPOVERELLO CENTER INC: $192,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SHELTER OF THE BITTERROOT INC: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterFLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterSamaritan House Inc: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHWESTERN MONTANA FAMILY YMCA INC: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $69,500 · EducationBUTTE HISTORICAL MEMORIALS INC: $40,000 · EducationCENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START: $33,700 · EducationLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC: $29,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $25,250 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $78,500 · Youth DevelopmentTIKKUN OLAM MINISTRIES INC: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $49,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,321,100Food & Nutrition$2,233,500Human Services$1,401,800Recreation & Sports$750,000Housing & Shelter$315,500Education$197,950Youth Development$180,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMainstreet Uptown Butte Inc: $1,324,900 over 7y, 57% of budgetButte Rescue Mission: $1,188,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $700,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $518,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetACTION INC: $324,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetButte Emergency Food Bank: $311,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetBillings Food Bank Inc: $291,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHELENA FOOD SHARE INC: $287,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC: $232,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $205,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC: $192,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $155,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $151,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPOLSON LOAVES AND FISH PANTRY INC: $147,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetPINTLER PETS: $129,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $124,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE INC: $121,000 over 7y, 33% of budgetLIBBY FOOD PANTRY INC: $118,500 over 7y, 23% of budgetSAGEBRUSH FOOD PANTRY: $108,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetGREAT FALLS FISH INC: $105,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $103,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTREASURE STATE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHelping Hands in Hardin Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetMONTANA HOPE PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetPRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC: $85,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $82,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RICHLAND COUNTY: $78,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTobacco Valley Food Pantry: $78,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetBEAVERHEAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $78,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $78,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA FALLS FOOD BANK: $78,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE: $76,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $70,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $69,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDEER LODGE FOOD PANTRY: $64,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetYWCA HELENA: $61,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC: $59,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $59,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $56,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCUSTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $56,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $53,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTIKKUN OLAM MINISTRIES INC: $52,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOL & PARK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMONTANA GAELIC CULTURAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGALLATIN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCarbon County Community Food Bank: $50,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $49,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMadison Valley Caring and Sharing Inc: $48,000 over 5y, 25% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Gianforte Family Char…Montana Community Fou…Headwaters Health Fou…Montana Food Bank Net…Sample Foundation IncTreacy FoundationMontana Healthcare Fo…Oro y Plata FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…The Steele-Reese Foun…The Bill & Rosemary G…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT255.8× affinity226 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Town Pump Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Town Pump Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1710 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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