· Private foundation
Wagon Mountain Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POVERELLO CENTER INC | $8,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $7,000 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| CDNA | $5,000 |
| MONTANA FOODBANK NETWORK | $5,000 |
| SOFT LANDING MISSOULA | $5,000 |
| FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST | $4,250 |
| GARDEN CITY HARVEST | $3,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MISSOULA | $3,000 |
| MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE - FAMILY PROMISE | $3,000 |
| YWCA SERVICE CENTERDOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $3,000 |
| MISSOULA YOUTH HOMES | $3,000 |
| WATSONS CHILDREN SHELTER | $3,000 |
| MISSOULA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| HOMEWORD | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PCPOVERELLO CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +122%
- FVFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +132%
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSOULA INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +19%
- YFYWCA FAMILY EMERGENCY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WCWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +52%
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 provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
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.
Land to hand's mission is to build a strong community food system that fosters socially just ways of accessing food. we accomplish this mission through our food access and education programs.
Mountainlands community housing association's (mcha) purpose is based on the belief that a safe affordable home is often a family's first step toward economic self-sufficiency. mcha addresses the dual problems of housing affordability and…
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
Missoula Electric Cooperative, Inc. strives to uphold a commitment to service excellence, while delivering safe, affordable and reliable electricty to its members.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poverello Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK FORK COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA AIDS FUNDS INC DBA OPEN AID ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM GARDENS ↗
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 · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Missoula Community Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The Thendara Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Voice Foundation · United Way of Missoula County
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 Wagon Mountain Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.