· Public charity
Benefis Health System Inc
We provide excellent care for all, healing body, mind and spirit.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
- $250k+1 grant · $619k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $619,276 |
| GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| TOURO UNIVERSITY | $18,264 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MONTANA | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN TRANSIT INTERLOCAL | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $8,000 |
| EXPLORATIONWORKS INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +25%
- GFGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +63%
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF4× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MSMONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +111%
- PPPEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION OF GREAT FALLS INCone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
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.
The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities
The greater fairbanks community hospital foundation was established toensure that we never again face the prospect of a community without health care by: 1) providing first-class medical facilities and technology 2) overseeing an excellent…
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
The mission of the montana tech foundation is to advance the teaching, research and public service endeavors of montana tech by generating private contributions to supplement the institution's state and federal revenues for capital,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATIONWORKS INC ↗
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 · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Boe Brothers Foundation D a Davidson Trust Co · Treacy Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Benefis Health System 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.