· Private foundation
Buchanan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELIVERFUND | $5,000 |
| PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
| DIOCESE OF HELENA | $3,000 |
| MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM | $3,000 |
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| MISSOULA FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| MONTANA SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSN | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS GREAT FALLS | $1,000 |
| FLATHEAD LAKE BIO STATION | $1,000 |
| MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FBO UM | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GREAT FALLS CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 10 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DDeliverFund5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +7%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +75%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- HIHOMEWORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +40%
- BFBENEFIS FOUNDATION - PEACE HOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $500
- FFFLATHEAD FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $400 · revenue -58%
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.
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.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
The Montana Family Foundation is a non-profit engaged in research and education of legislators, other government officials, and the public on issues regarding families, family health, and traditional family values.
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
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To assist victims of housing discrimination in the state of montana.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DeliverFund ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Partnerships For Change ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bigfork Fire Department ↗
- Who funds MONTANA SHERIFFS AND PEACE OFFICERS ASSO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Samaritan House Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Buchanan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buchanan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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