· Community foundation
Central Montana Foundation
Educational and cultural improvement of central montana
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $959k
- $250k+6 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCentral Montana Medical Facilities Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +94%
- PCPETROLEUM COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +9% · 30% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LEWISTOWN7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MIMAKE IT HAPPEN INCone grant, 2017 · $341k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $296k
- OOTHERone grant, 2021 · $278k
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 preserve rural health care
To provide through local leadership economic, technical, and engineering information, and access to resources to improve theeconomies in the area.
Chamber of commerce
Promote and support 4-h club work in beaverhead county montana
Education, reearch, and trainng
Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County
Promote agriculture and industry.
Rural fire protection and safety services
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…
Conduct a community fair and rodeo.
To provide access to the performing arts of all ages through quality entertainment, education, and cultural enrichment programs.
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
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 106 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Central Montana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Montana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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