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Treacy 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $821k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $96,000 |
| EAST HELENA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $75,000 |
| CARROLL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BRIDGERCARE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS MT | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GALLATIN VALLEY | $50,000 |
| FORT PECK ARTS COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| WHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HIST | $50,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $50,000 |
| ZOO MONTANA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $961k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 59 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- HFHELENA FOOD SHARE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +87%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE5× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +32%
- SCSHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $100k
- CCLDIone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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…
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
FMP is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of our community through the promotion and support of recreational spaces. We champion the development, maintenance, and conservation of parks, trails, and forestry in Missoula, Montana, and the…
Working Montanans' mission is to advocate for an economy that works for working people and other critical issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Nonprofit Association and the most unlike its peers is Gods Love Inc. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
171 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. 171 of the 411 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 HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds SHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RiverStone Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZooMontana 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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · The High Stakes Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004
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 Treacy 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
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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