· Private foundation
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k644 grants · $1.6M
- $10k–50k116 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $437k
- $250k+1 grant · $663k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Blackbaud Giving Fund | $663,178 |
| YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC | $103,000 |
| WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $59,490 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA | $50,000 |
| RIVERPEAK HEALTH | $50,000 |
| Billings School District | $50,000 |
| WISE WONDERS CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $40,245 |
| E4E RELIEF LLC | $38,713 |
| FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC | $37,500 |
| IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $36,000 |
| FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA | $35,500 |
| MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY | $32,500 |
| COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC | $32,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
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, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
1151 repeat relationships: 469 still active in FY2025, 682 since wound down; 175 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $526k · revenue +19%
- LWLEADERSHIP WYOMING6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +240%
- MFMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $189k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CVCobre Valley Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $75k
- BCBOULDER COUNTY RSVP BOARD INC dba CULTIVATEone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -4%
- CCCARE CORPS' LIFEHOUSEone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -10%
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
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To build a strong community food system that fosters socially just ways of accessing food
Providing safe, decent & affordable housing opportunities.
To strengthen families in our communities by offering opportunities in education, housing, health, employment and legal services.
Medical, dental, and mental health services for low income, uninsured, and underinsured patients in the missoula, montana region.
To connect people who care with causes that matter.
Collaboration and advocacy for the five feeding america food banks in co and wy.
Distributing donated and purchased food to low-income households and homeless individuals.
We promote independence and an enhanced quality of life for adults with serious mental illness.
Supporting sustainable business growth and quality job creation throughout missoula county.
Providing food to needy families in the community.
How this is measured
1485 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. 1485 of the 2,000 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR BANDS COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLACK HILLS ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PLENTY DOORS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin 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 · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Sample Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · United Way of Deschutes County · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery: 60% of income from government
- Project Patchwork: 44% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery: 38% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc: 28% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc: 16% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
- Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc: 11% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health: 8% of income from government
- Nonprofit Association of Oregon: 6% of income from government
- Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades: 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: 2% of income from government
- Josephine County Food Bank: 1% of income from government
- Casa of Jackson County Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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