Montana · Community foundation
Central Montana Foundation
Educational and cultural improvement of central montana
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $9.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,416,470
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $67M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Central Montana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $9.8M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $4.4M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $6.0M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $2.2M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $424k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Montana Medical Facilities Inc | $6,493,701 | 8 | 5% |
| Petroleum County Community Center Inc | $4,349,590 | 5 | 30% |
| Century Companies | $3,416,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Fergus County Disaster Relief Fund | $1,680,560 | 3 | 85% |
| Winifred School District | $919,534 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewistown Soccer Club Inc | $645,688 | 6 | 73% |
| Carr Construction | $626,053 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lewistown- Creekside | $597,129 | 7 | n/a |
| Griffith Contracting | $593,226 | 1 | n/a |
| Petroleum County | $516,956 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Montana Medical Facilities Inc | $6,493,701 | 8 | 5% |
| Petroleum County Community Center Inc | $4,349,590 | 5 | 30% |
| Century Companies | $3,416,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Fergus County Disaster Relief Fund | $1,680,560 | 3 | 85% |
| Winifred School District | $919,534 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewistown Soccer Club Inc | $645,688 | 6 | 73% |
| Carr Construction | $626,053 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lewistown- Creekside | $597,129 | 7 | n/a |
| Griffith Contracting | $593,226 | 1 | n/a |
| Petroleum County | $516,956 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of the Lewistown City Pool | $434,162 | 4 | n/a |
| Garfield Co Health Center | $341,759 | 2 | n/a |
| Make It Happen Inc | $341,006 | 1 | n/a |
| Denton Ambulance Service Inc | $232,652 | 1 | n/a |
| Smith Construction | $225,448 | 1 | n/a |
| Jlw Architecture | $207,768 | 1 | n/a |
| On Your Wayfergus Co | $203,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Lewistown | $183,192 | 7 | 12% |
| Nb Construction | $178,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Garfield Co Endowment | $160,060 | 5 | n/a |
| Fergus Hs- Girls Fp Boys Cc | $156,272 | 6 | n/a |
| Central Montana Historical Association Inc | $130,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hobson School Gym | $129,098 | 3 | n/a |
| Lewistown Art Center | $126,542 | 7 | 25% |
| Winnett Aces Inc | $126,400 | 4 | 9% |
| Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 456 | $109,344 | 3 | 8% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $94,602 | 4 | n/a |
| Crabtree Fencing | $87,531 | 1 | n/a |
| Smiles Inc | $81,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Central Montana Community Cupboard Inc | $79,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Greyn Scale Co | $69,985 | 1 | n/a |
| Saving Animals From Euthanasia | $67,670 | 3 | n/a |
| Am Engineering | $64,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Your Neighbor Cares of Cent Mt | $55,224 | 5 | n/a |
| Stahly Engineering & Associates | $54,907 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewistown Ice Skating Association | $47,600 | 2 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church | $46,110 | 5 | n/a |
| Town of Winnett | $42,150 | 2 | n/a |
| St James | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Trails | $39,799 | 2 | n/a |
| Fergus County Council on Aging | $39,603 | 2 | 2% |
| Agdata Source | $38,693 | 1 | n/a |
| Stanford Open | $35,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Heath Rural Fire District | $29,971 | 3 | n/a |
| Stanford Beautification Project Inc | $29,144 | 2 | n/a |
| Montana Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Western Music Rendezvous | $26,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Montana Youth Youth Challenge Foundation | $25,000 | 2 | 53% |
| Pet Assistance League | $24,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Central Montana Youth Mentoring Program Inc | $23,130 | 3 | n/a |
| Judith Mountain Players | $21,380 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Montana Wrestling Club | $20,602 | 2 | n/a |
| Cheadle Fire Department | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ackley Lake Club | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Judith Basin Historical Society Inc | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heritage and Cultural Foundation of Garfield County | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana 4-H Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hilger Rural Fire District | $12,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Friends of the Library | $11,759 | 1 | 15% |
| Hobson Pool Special Taxing District | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Judith Basin County Fair Board | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewistown Redbirds Baseball Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Jordan Extreme Broncs | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rural Behavioral Health Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Central Montana Childcare Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Winifred | $9,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewistown Area Chamber of Commerce | $9,083 | 1 | 3% |
| Montana Winter Fair | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Montana Head Start | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Recycle Montana Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Montana Shooting Complex In | $6,021 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan Ministries | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Basin Wellness Center Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lulu's Concrete | $5,904 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Montana Memorial Gardens | $5,811 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Spring Creek Watershed Council | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Moore School | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Saint Wenceslaus Institute | $5,086 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Central Montana Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Central Montana Foundation
- How much does Central Montana Foundation give?
- Central Montana Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $9,778,971, out of $11,163,137 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Central Montana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), Community Improvement (17%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Central Montana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Central Montana Medical Facilities Inc ($6.5M), Petroleum County Community Center Inc ($4.3M), Century Companies ($3.4M).
- Does Central Montana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Central Montana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
- Where is Central Montana Foundation based?
- Central Montana Foundation is based in MT.
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