· Community foundation
Whitefish Community Foundation Inc
The whitefish community foundation is dedicated to fostering philanthropy, building endowments, and helping donors and nonprofits benefit our community.
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.
The 158 grants below total $11,319,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,637,515 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,317,968 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k60 grants · $6.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL | $1,252,549 |
| DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION | $479,707 |
| WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS | $354,404 |
| NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK | $351,769 |
| NATE CHUTE FOUNDATION | $330,915 |
| LAND TO HAND | $253,448 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $233,525 |
| VIOLENCE FREE CRISIS LINE - ABBIE SHELTER | $221,702 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NW MONTANA | $215,667 |
| NORTHWEST MONTANA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $214,225 |
| SPARROW'S NEST OF NW MT | $206,172 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $200,300 |
| CASA FOR KIDS INC | $185,439 |
| SHEPHERD'S HAND CLINIC | $161,202 |
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, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
166 repeat relationships — 123 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 28 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k 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
- NVNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +713% · 70% of their budget
- DADREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +715% · 47% of their budget
- NVNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +143% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- RCRiekes Center for Human Enhancementone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -37%
- TBTAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2018 · $118k
- HWHOUSING WHITEFISHone grant, 2022 · $86k
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 montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Mission: to enrich the lives of present and future generations by supporting philanthropy in the communities we serve by gathering donors' gifts in permanent endowments or pass-through funds; growing individual funds through wise…
The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
To educate the public on the issues that confront our ability to access and actively manage our public lands.
Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitefish Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swagar Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
233 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. 233 of the 281 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 NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LEGACY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE FREE CRISIS LINE ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WHITEFISH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NATE CHUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPARROW'S NEST OF NW MT ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HAND FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NW MONTANA ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GLACIER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOGAN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BIG MOUNTAIN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH LAKE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL OF THE FLATHEAD VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NORDIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
- Who funds BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MONTANA HUMAN RESOURCES INC DBA COMMUNITY ACTION PARNERSHIP NW MT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MONTANA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Roundup for Safety Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Angora Ridge Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Bayne Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation
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 Whitefish Community 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.
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 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.