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Tracy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$269k
Granted FY2021
16
Grants FY2021
15
Organizations funded FY2021
33%
First-time grantees FY2021
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52% of Tracy Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Tracy Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $269k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
8
’18
11
’19
7
’20
10
’21
7
’22
4
’23
4
’24
7
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 16
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
7
Total assets, FY2021
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 33% of the organizations Tracy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202115$231k33%
FY202013$266k23%
FY201916$201k56%
FY201812$171k42%
FY201712$112kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$423kEducation$417kFood & Nutrition$286kCrime & Legal$266kHealth$231kYouth Development$108kCivil Rights$70kRecreation & Sports$67kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tracy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc: $284,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMontana Innocence Project: $255,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Glacier Country: $60,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $47,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDream Adaptive Recreation Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAngels' Place: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMontana Food Bank Network Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKalispell Regional Healthcare Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPlymouth Harbor Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACLU of Montana Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetColumbia Falls Food Bank: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEducation Foundation of Sarasota County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Law and Economic Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ehe Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Sanders Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCenter for Restorative Youth Justice: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Children's Village Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Search: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSixth Judicial Court Casagal Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOvercome Vision Loss Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Hallowell Fdn Agency-Main · Ila B Dousman Fund Inc · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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How do I get to Tracy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tracy 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.

About Tracy Foundation

How much does Tracy Foundation give?
Tracy Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $269,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Tracy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are Tracy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Flathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc ($284k), Montana Innocence Project ($255k), All Faiths Food Bank Inc ($90k).
Does Tracy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tracy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tracy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Whitefish Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
Where is Tracy Foundation based?
Tracy Foundation is based in FL.

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 50 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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