· Private foundation
William and Lorene Nefsy Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Beaver Creek Lodge Inc | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| Fergus Wrestling Club Inc | $12,000 |
| Beaverhead County High School | $12,000 |
| Wild Horse Sports Association | $11,500 |
| Bonner School District | $7,000 |
| WaterWorks Art Museum | $3,500 |
| Huntley Project Museum | $750 |
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 (FY23–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- BSBOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2022 · $63k · revenue -42%
- WAWATERWORKS ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue -27%
- BCBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MCMILES COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UWUM Western Foundationone grant, 2021 · $48k
- DCDawson Community College Athleticsone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
Provide funding for the improvement & enhancement of the Beaverhead County Fairgrounds.
To establish and operate the blaine county wildlife museum with the intent to provide quality wildlife museum exhibiting montana wildlife in their natural habitats, complete with audio and visual enhancement.
To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.
To build and maintain trails in the Missouri River Headwaters Area.
To promote healthy lifestyles and physical fitness by operating, improving and maintaining an ice rink facility for youth activities and public benefit for the city of whitefish, montana. the ice rink facility is owned by the city of…
Teaching and supporting shooting sports
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
To preserve the architectual integrity of the structure and the significance of the miles city academy building as it relates to eastern montana's history
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bozeman Sports Park Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fair View Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 77 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 BOZEMAN SPORTS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CENTER FOR HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERWORKS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pondera Rec Association ↗
- Who funds WILDHORSE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT BILLINGS ↗
- Who funds Barrett Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILES CITY YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Albert & E Bender Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William and Lorene Nefsy 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.
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