· Public charity
Benefis Health System Foundation Inc
Improving and enhancing healthcare services for people throughout north central montana.
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 2 grants below total $1,743,137 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,881,161 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,138,024 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
- $50k–250k1 grant · $186k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM | $1,556,875 |
| BENEFIS HOSPITALS | $186,262 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your 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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BHBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +91%
- BHBENEFIS HOSPITALS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue -34%
- BTBENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue -14%
Funded once
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -59%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +27%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +26%
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.
Improving and enhancing healthcare services for people throughout north central montana.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benefis Hospitals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cascade County Tavern Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
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 BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Cascade County Tavern Association ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Benefis Health System 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.
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.