· Private foundation
Veazey Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB MISSOULA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| POVERELLO CENTER | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE | $1,000 |
| MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of your 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BABoys and Girls Club of Missoula County5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue -20%
- PCPOVERELLO CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
- YYWCA3× · 2021–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- FLFLATHEAD LAKERS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -19%
- MIMISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +42%
- MHMONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -15%
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 enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
The mission of the missoula public library foundation is to advocate for the missoula public library and raise funds for library initiatives that enhance our community
Providing quality live performances for the conrad area
MUD empowers people to build a more sustainable community through hands-on learning in our Workshops, shared resources in our Tool Library, and by providing a living example of sustainable urban living at our Demonstration Site
Missoula mountain bike coalition's mission is to promote and create mountain biking opportunities in missoula and surrounding areas through trail building, stewardship, advocacy and outreach.
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…
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
To provide early high-quality education to children in the missoula community ages 2 to 6 years.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poverello Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flathead Lakers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA WRITING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCT INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA COMMUNITY CHORUS 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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Missoula Community Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable 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 Veazey Family 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.
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.