· Public charity
United Way of Yellowstone County Inc
To address the needs of yellowstone county and to improve lives by connecting and collaborating for a thriving community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAD START | $38,196 |
| VETERANS NAVIGATION NETWORK | $35,000 |
| YWCA | $31,792 |
| ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE | $31,792 |
| DISTRICT 7 HRDC | $25,000 |
| YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START | $20,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-EASTERN MONTANA | $20,000 |
| BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC | $19,306 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS-READING ROCKS | $18,915 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS-BACKPACK MEALS | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA | $10,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE CASA | $10,000 |
| TUMBLEWEED | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $661k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of United Way of Yellowstone County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS MONTANA9× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +11%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $374k · revenue +89%
- YCYELLOWSTONE CASA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AIAWARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county
Youth dynamics provides family focused behavioral health treatment founded on the principles of an actively caring and trauma sensitive culture in which people can realize their full potential.
The group home and shelter is for the long and short term care, guidance and education of troubled youth age 10 to 17 in southwest wyoming. we arrange for them to be in counseling but do not provide this service.
To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Empowers youth at-risk and their families to meet goals for safety, stability, belonging and success by providing a continuum of individualized services and advocacy.
To deliver life-changing services to homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth in northern nm.
Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.
The mission of youth service bureau of illinois valley (ysb) is to help young people and families succeed by serving them in their home, school and community. ysb provides foster care, counseling and crisis intervention services to clients…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Navigation Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS MONTANA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CASA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Veterans Navigation Network ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds AWARE 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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
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 United Way of Yellowstone County Inc 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.
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.