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Benefis Health System Inc

We provide excellent care for all, healing body, mind and spirit.

$741k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$619k
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$3.9MFood & Nutrition$131kRecreation & Sports$119kEducation$86kCommunity Improvement$65kHousing & Shelter$56kHuman Services$35kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $250k+1 grant · $619k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$826M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EXPLORATIONWORKS INC: $7k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 10 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$4.4M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+111%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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 FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +25%
  • GF
    GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +45%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF
    4× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MS
    MONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +111%
  • PP
    PEOPLES PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION OF GREAT FALLS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
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
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
2
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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3
Great Falls Clinic Legacy Foundation

The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities

Health
4
Scenic Montana Trails
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5
The Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation Incorporated

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…

Health
6
The Greater Montana Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Montana Chamber of Commerce

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,…

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8
Montana Technological University Foundation

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,…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Augustana College

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…

Education
11
Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $3,632,845 · HealthBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $65,000 · HealthGREAT FALLS COLLEGE - MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $224,000 · OtherGREAT FALLS…GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $131,000 · OtherGREAT FALLS…NORTHERN TRANSIT INTERLOCAL: $65,000 · OtherNORTHERN TR…+3 more: $31,500 · Other+3 moreSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $56,000 · Housing & ShelterGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $35,000 · Human ServicesEXPLORATIONWORKS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTOURO UNIVERSITY: $18,264 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $8,000 · Education
Health$3,697,845Other$451,500Recreation & Sports$110,000Housing & Shelter$56,000Philanthropy$45,000Human Services$42,000Education$26,264

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $3,632,845 over 8y, 14% of budgetGREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $131,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF: $56,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $18,264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEXPLORATIONWORKS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Town Pump Charitable …Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Alice Lee Lund Charit…Boe Brothers Foundati…Treacy FoundationGianforte Family Char…First Interstate Banc…M J Murdock Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benefis Health System Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benefis Health System 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
    2report 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 16 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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