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Treacy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.3MArts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$2.0MHealth$1.9MEnvironment$720kFood & Nutrition$709kRecreation & Sports$648kHousing & Shelter$612kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $50k → 15%STANFORD OPEN: $50k → 12%KOOTENAI HERITAGE COUNCIL: $35k → 17%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $50k → 9%MILK RIVER INC: $41k → 12%Mountain Home Montana: $15k → 9%Great Falls Rescue Mission: $25k → 14%Mountain Home Montana: $10k → 9%Mountain Home Montana: $10k → 9%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $50k → 11%HELP CENTER INC: $30k → 10%Riverstone Health Foundation: $50k → 9%Riverstone Health Foundation: $50k → 9%GREATER IMPACT: $10k → 10%Reach Inc: $10k → 10%REACH INC: $4k → 10%Intermountain Childrens Home: $50k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%Family Outreach: $20k → 9%Family Outreach: $19k → 9%Exploration Works: $19k → 9%Landon's Legacy Foundation: $41k → 9%YWCA - Missoula: $50k → 9%YWCA - Missoula: $50k → 9%YWCA - Missoula: $40k → 9%FAMILY OUTREACH: $10k → 9%Family Outreach: $10k → 9%YOUTH HOMES: $22k → 9%YWCA - Missoula: $16k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MT
ND
MA
OR
WY
IN
CA
UT
CO
AZ

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.2M · 111 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
238

Total granted

$9.2M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

46%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HF
    HELENA FOOD SHARE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +87%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +32%
  • SC
    SHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • C
    CLDI
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Scenic Montana Trails
2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
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
4
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

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.

Environment
5
Montana Hospital Association

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.

6
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
7
Missoula Community Foundation

To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits

Community Improvement
8
Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports
9
Montana Chamber of Commerce

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,…

10
Montana Association of Conservation Districts

To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.

11
Friends of Missoula Parks Inc

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…

Environment
12
Working Montanans

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesConservation and Environmen…Affordable Housing ProvidersHistory and Art MuseumsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Youth & Community ProgramsYouth Sports & Recreation P…Christian Missionary Organi…Senior Centers & ServicesCommunity Development Organ…Montana Community Developme…Montana Education & Youth S…Disability Services & Emplo…Youth Services & EducationCommunity Theatre & DanceHealthcare Delivery Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr12%8%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr18%33%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr18%38%35–55yr14%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/199
the rest of the field
9%
598/6,681

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
165/171
Grantees still filing
106/171
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various Higher Education Institutio — $1,814,166 · OtherVarious Higher Education InstitutioDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES — $500,000 · Other+140 more — $7,712,550 · Other+140 moreYWCA MISSOULA — $155,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $100,000 · Human ServicesRiverStone Health Foundation — $100,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION — $66,000 · Human ServicesREGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INC — $59,000 · Human ServicesIntermountain Childrens Home — $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWN — $50,000 · Human ServicesSTANFORD OPEN — $50,000 · Human ServicesMILK RIVER INC — $41,000 · Human ServicesKOOTENAI HERITAGE COUNCIL INC — $35,000 · Human Services+4 more — $111,500 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $183,000 · HealthSHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthST PETER'S HEALTH — $75,000 · HealthWEST MONT — $75,000 · HealthBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $65,000 · HealthPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthDALY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · HealthPUREVIEW HEALTH CENTER — $27,000 · Health+2 more — $50,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $171,000 · EducationARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION — $145,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGE — $120,000 · EducationNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE — $46,250 · EducationTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationSTANFORD LIBRARY GUILD INC — $25,000 · EducationHELENA FOOD SHARE INC — $315,000 · Food & NutritionMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $80,000 · Food & NutritionFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionWINNETT ACES INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $94,000 · Arts & CultureCASCADE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSTEVENSVILLE PLAYHOUSE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MUSEUM OF MINING — $32,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MYRNA LOY — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePONDERA ARTS COUNCIL — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePreservation Cascade Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NORTH IDAHO INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST — $135,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $62,500 · EnvironmentGLENDIVE RECYCLES OUR WASTE INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — $35,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentHOME RESOURCE INC — $25,000 · Environment
Other$10,026,716Human Services$953,000Health$760,000Education$632,250Food & Nutrition$555,000Arts & Culture$436,000Environment$357,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHELENA FOOD SHARE INC — $315,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $183,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $171,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA MISSOULA — $155,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHAVEN — $150,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST — $135,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $102,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA BAIR THEATER CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM — $94,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC — $81,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetZooMontana Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetST PETER'S HEALTH — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Mount — $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWEST MONT — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLANDONS LEGACY FOUNDATION — $66,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $65,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $62,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGERCARE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA CENTER FOR HORSEMANSHIP INC — $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH — $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INC — $59,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION — $56,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC — $52,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetIntermountain Childrens Home — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMontana Jewish Project — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPeak Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATLAND MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTANFORD OPEN — $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FOREST SERVICE HISTORY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT135.3× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
43report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Treacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Treacy 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 411 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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