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· Public charity

Benefis Health System Foundation Inc

Improving and enhancing healthcare services for people throughout north central montana.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$14MPhilanthropy$12kHousing & Shelter$6kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $1,743,137, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,881,161 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,138,024 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $186k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$1,556,875
Median grant
1
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM$1,556,875
BENEFIS HOSPITALS$186,262
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%NEIGHBORWORKS GREAT FALLS: $6k → 14%BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.8M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.7M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.7M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.7M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.6M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.2M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.1M → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $1.1M → 14%BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM: $872k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $318k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $265k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $186k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $164k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $136k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $67k → 14%BENEFIS HOSPITALS: $50k → 14%BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $22k → 14%BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 4 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$14M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BH
    BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +91%
  • BH
    BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue -34%
  • BT
    BENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • RD
    ROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -59%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GFgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +27%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +26%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Benefis Health System Foundation Inc

Improving and enhancing healthcare services for people throughout north central montana.

Health
2
Billings Clinic

Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.

Health
3
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital

To improve community health and quality of life.

Health
5
Montana Hospital Association

Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.

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6
Barrett Hospital Development Corporation

Barrett Hospital & HealthCare provides compassionate care, healing, and health-improving service to all community members throughout life's journey.

Health
7
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
8
Boulder Community Health

To provide our community the highest value healthcare in an innovative, patient-centered environment.

Health
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Renown South Meadows Medical Center

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
11
Bmh Inc

Bingham memorial hospital is committed to the pursuit of excellence in its endeavor to provide a continuum of quality, compassionate healthcare services for our residents and for visitors to bingham county, in the most effective and cost…

Health
12
Renown Regional Medical Center

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benefis Hospitals Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $11,599,722 · HealthBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INCBENEFIS HOSPITALS INC: $2,245,245 · HealthBENEFIS HOSPITALS INC+3 more: $46,177 · HealthROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION: $12,150 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $6,300 · Housing & ShelterCascade County Tavern Association: $5,633 · Other
Health$13,891,144Philanthropy$12,150Housing & Shelter$6,300Other$5,633

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $11,599,722 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetBENEFIS HOSPITALS INC: $2,245,245 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBENEFIS TETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $27,451 over 2y, 13% of budgetBENEFIS COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC: $12,771 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION: $12,150 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $6,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,955 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCascade County Tavern Association: $5,633 over 1y, 12% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benefis Health System Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benefis Health System Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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