· Private foundation
Tracy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GLACIER COUNTY | $26,000 |
| EQUISHUI | $25,000 |
| FARM HANDS | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE THE GAP COLLEGE PREP | $10,000 |
| WEDI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA FALLS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ANGELS PLACE | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL OF LONGBOAT KEY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Tracy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +150% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +252%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +150%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GLACIER COUNTRY3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- KRKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +43%
- GBGLACIER BABE RUTH LEAGUE INCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- AACAEone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
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.
The Flathead Food Bank strives to elimnate hunger in the Flathead Valley through collaborative partnerships creating effective solutions to connect and strengthen individuals, families and the community through access to healthy nutritious…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GLACIER COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
- Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA FALLS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EHE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Sanders Institute ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tracy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tracy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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