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Central Montana Foundation

Educational and cultural improvement of central montana

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$6.9MCommunity Improvement$4.9MHuman Services$4.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.6MRecreation & Sports$1.8MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$906kEnvironment$800kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $9,778,971 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,163,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,384,166 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

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $302k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $959k
  • $250k+6 grants · $8.5M
$30,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTURY COMPANIES$3,416,470
CENTRAL MONTANA MEDICAL CENTER$2,651,360
WINIFRED SCHOOL DISTRICT$919,534
CARR CONSTRUCTION$626,053
GRIFFITH CONTRACTING$593,226
PETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER$259,341
SMITH CONSTRUCTION$225,448
JLW ARCHITECTURE$207,768
NB CONSTRUCTION$178,380
CRABTREE FENCING$87,531
PETROLEUM COUNTY$70,000
GREYN SCALE CO$69,985
AM ENGINEERING$64,500
STAHLY ENGINEERING & ASSOCIATES$54,907
AGDATA SOURCE$38,693
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STANFORD OPEN: $15k → 12%STANFORD OPEN: $10k → 12%STANFORD OPEN: $10k → 12%CENTRAL MT CHILDCARE ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 43 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
42

Total granted

$19M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-13%

Still filing today

26%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.6M 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • CM
    Central Montana Medical Facilities Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +94%
  • PC
    PETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +9% · 30% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MI
    MAKE IT HAPPEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $341k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $296k
  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2021 · $278k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Crook County Medical Services District Foundation Inc

To preserve rural health care

Philanthropy
2
North Central Montana Economic Development District

To provide through local leadership economic, technical, and engineering information, and access to resources to improve theeconomies in the area.

Community Improvement
3
Fairmont Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of commerce

4
4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H Organizations Beaverhead

Promote and support 4-h club work in beaverhead county montana

Youth Development
5
Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center

Education, reearch, and trainng

Animals
6
Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment
7
Robeson County Agricultural and Industrial Exposition Inc

Promote agriculture and industry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Fennimore Rural Fire Dept Inc

Rural fire protection and safety services

9
Belgrade Senior Center

The Mission of the Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…

10
Montgomery County Fair Association

Conduct a community fair and rodeo.

11
Lewiston Civic Theatre

To provide access to the performing arts of all ages through quality entertainment, education, and cultural enrichment programs.

12
Montana United Indian Association

The organization's purpose is to improve the economic, social and cultural status of montana's urban native americans by promoting and creating job opportunities and providing education assistance

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lewistown Redbirds Baseball Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewistown Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%10%<5yr12%22%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr11%20%20–35yr22%20%35–55yr19%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%10%<5yr12%33%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr11%2%20–35yr22%49%35–55yr19%1%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/78
the rest of the field
7%
11/156

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTURY COMPANIES — $3,416,470 · OtherCENTURY COMPANIESWINIFRED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $919,534 · OtherWINIFRED SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient — $700,000 · OtherCARR CONSTRUCTION — $626,053 · OtherCITY OF LEWISTOWN- CREEKSIDE — $597,129 · OtherGRIFFITH CONTRACTING — $593,226 · OtherPETROLEUM COUNTY — $516,956 · Other+90 more — $6,606,349 · Other+90 moreCentral Montana Medical Facilities Inc — $6,493,701 · HealthCentral Montana Medical F…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthPETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,349,590 · Community ImprovementPETROLEUM COUNTY …FERGUS COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $1,680,560 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION — $1,601,220 · PhilanthropyLEWISTOWN SOCCER CLUB INC — $645,688 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $6,021 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN — $183,192 · Youth DevelopmentLEWISTOWN REDBIRDS BASEBALL INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$13,975,717Health$6,503,701Community Improvement$4,349,590Public Safety & Disaster$1,680,560Philanthropy$1,601,220Recreation & Sports$651,709Youth Development$193,192

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCentral Montana Medical Facilities Inc — $6,493,701 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,349,590 over 5y, 30% of budgetFERGUS COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $1,680,560 over 3y, 85% of budgetCENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION — $1,601,220 over 6y, 29% of budgetLEWISTOWN SOCCER CLUB INC — $645,688 over 6y, 73% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN — $183,192 over 7y, 12% of budgetLEWISTOWN ART CENTER — $126,542 over 7y, 25% of budgetWINNETT ACES INC — $126,400 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetBENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 456 — $109,344 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetFERGUS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $39,603 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSTANFORD OPEN — $35,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetMONTANA YOUTH YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetHILGER RURAL FIRE DISTRICT — $12,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $11,759 over 1y, 15% of budgetLEWISTOWN REDBIRDS BASEBALL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetRURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEWISTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $9,083 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL MONTANA HEAD START — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN MINISTRIES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Central Montana Medical Facilities Inc
  • Who funds PETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds FERGUS COUNTY DISASTER RELIEF FUND
  • Who funds CENTRAL MONTANA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEWISTOWN SOCCER CLUB INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN
  • Who funds LEWISTOWN ART CENTER
  • Who funds WINNETT ACES INC
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 456

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.

Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover 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 · The Homestead Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Central Montana Foundation 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Central Montana Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Central Montana Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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