Montana · Nonprofit
THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC
THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,625 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What The Discovery Foundation Inc does
Program
The Foundation works closely with Calvary Chapel Church to provide access and use of the Foundations assets to assist the Calvary Chapel in is charitable and religious programs. The Foundations assets provide the opportunity for Calvary Chapel to attract visiting pastors and speakers to assist in the ongoing religious services and programs for the congregations.The Foundation also works closely with the Alpha Omega House in Missoula, MT. Foundation assets are used in conjunction with the Alpha Omega house to assist in the advancement of religion as well as its programs for the training of Christian youth counselors for the community.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.4M (+40%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The George Lewis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC?
- THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,625 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($16,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,625 in grants to THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC?
- GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing