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Community Food and Agriculture Coalition

To develop and strengthen missoula county's food system, to promote sustainable agriculture, to build regional self-reliance and to assure all citizens equal access to healthy, affordable and culturally appropriate foods.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$238kCommunity Improvement$91kHealth$62kHuman Services$45kEnvironment$12k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $262,779, the rows itemized in this filing. The $451,427 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $188,648 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$11,220
Median grant
2
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Albertsons Companies$67,305
Land to Hand$53,303
Clark Fork River Market$25,867
Missoula Farmers Market$22,407
Helena Food Share$14,576
St Peters Health Foundation$13,770
Bar1 Wellness Amber Barone$11,220
Partnership Health Center Inc$10,666
FAST Blackfeet$10,333
Adult Resource Alliance$10,123
Ravalli County Council on Agi$6,390
Lake County Council on Aging$5,826
All Nations Health Center$5,500
Western Sustainability Exchan$5,493
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Adult Resource Alliance: $10k → 9%Adult Resource Alliance: $10k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$385k · 10 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$385k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-18%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • ML
    MONTANA LAND TO HAND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +54%
  • CF
    CLARK FORK RIVER MARKET INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +34% · 25% of their budget
  • SP
    ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $27k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • WM
    Western MT Growers Co-op
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • BD
    Bozeman Deaconess Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -18%
  • MV
    Missoula Valley Winter Market
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
2
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
4
Scenic Montana Trails
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5
Montana Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative

To collaborate with people across the state on local, regenerative, and culturally specific food systems that aim to protect, cultivate, distribute, and increase access to indigenous foods through the exchange of knowledge, skills, and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
7
Agricultural Health Benefits Alliance Educational Foundation Llc
Education
8
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation

Dedicated to empowering community partners to achieve health care quality goals.

Health
9
Livingston Food Pantry of Park County

In 2024, the livingston food resource center (lfrc) continued its mission of addressing food insecurity and promoting community well-being across park county. through innovative programs, partnerships with local producers, and adapting to…

Food & Nutrition
10
Aitkin Community Hospital Dba Riverwood Healthcare Center

To improve health by providing high quality, compassionate and personalized care.

Health
11
Western Montana Area Vi Agency On Aging Inc

The older American act intends that the area agency on aging shall be the leader relative to all aging issuers on behalf of all older persons in the planning and service area. This means that the area agency shall proactively carry out,…

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12
Slow Food Wind River

To build an abundant, resilient, and valued local food system that supports our landscape, our farmers, ranchers, and food artisans, and our community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Land to Hand; the most unlike its peers is Western Sustainability Exchange. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Albertsons Companies: $90,520 · OtherAlbertsons CompaniesMissoula Farmers Market: $41,496 · OtherMissoula Farmers MarketST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $26,910 · OtherST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONRAVALLI COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,940 · OtherRAVALLI COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGBar1 Wellness Amber Barone: $11,220 · OtherPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,666 · OtherWestern MT Growers Co-op: $10,503 · Other+1 more: $6,717 · OtherMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $95,523 · Food & NutritionMONTANA LAND TO HANDHELENA FOOD SHARE INC: $28,526 · Food & NutritionHELENA FOOD SHARE INCFAST BLACKFEET: $10,333 · Food & NutritionFAST BLACKFEETCLARK FORK RIVER MARKET INC: $44,840 · EnvironmentCLARK FORK RIV…WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $11,923 · EnvironmentWESTERN SUSTAI…ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $19,750 · Human ServicesLAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $11,420 · Housing & ShelterBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $7,500 · PhilanthropyALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,500 · Health
Other$211,972Food & Nutrition$134,382Environment$56,763Human Services$19,750Housing & Shelter$11,420Philanthropy$7,500Health$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $95,523 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCLARK FORK RIVER MARKET INC: $44,840 over 2y, 25% of budgetHELENA FOOD SHARE INC: $28,526 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $26,910 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $19,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAVALLI COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,940 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $11,923 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $11,420 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $10,333 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

First Interstate Banc…Town Pump Charitable …Montana Healthcare Fo…Headwaters Health Fou…Otto Bremer TrustMontana Food Bank Net…The High Stakes Found…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Share Our StrengthDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Share Our Strength · 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 Community Food and Agriculture Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Food and Agriculture Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Community Food and Agriculture Coalition 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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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