· Private foundation
Gianforte Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k114 grants · $432k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $1,014,059 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY | $759,321 |
| GREATER IMPACT INC | $715,324 |
| ST ANDREW SCHOOL | $710,160 |
| OPTIONS WOMEN'S CLINIC | $509,335 |
| HOPE CENTER MINISTRIES - BUTTE | $506,856 |
| MONTANA HIGHER ED STUD ASSIS CORP | $492,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE INC | $444,250 |
| MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $398,391 |
| PACIFIC NW ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE | $358,412 |
| MONTANA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $302,531 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $273,093 |
| COMMUNIO | $260,578 |
| THE MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK | $257,694 |
| YOUTH ENTERPRENEURS INC - MONTANA | $243,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
322 repeat relationships: 176 still active in FY2024, 146 since wound down; 78 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, 91% 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
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2017–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +194%
- MSMontana State University Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +315%
- CBCHILD BRIDGE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +324%
Funded once
- BCBILLINGS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- SASTUDENT ASSISTANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- CCOMMUNIOgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $158k · revenue +250%
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.
Goodwater Ministries exists to see the spiritual beauty become a reflection of the physical beauty in the Flathead Valley. Specifically Whitefish, MT. We focus on three areas: 1. Church planting 2. Leadership development and training 3.…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Ensuring that christian education can thrive in montana by supporting billings christian school and montana bible college
Our mission is to end hunger in the valley county, montana area through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. our vision is a montana free from hunger where everyone has equal access to nutritious food.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
A vital community in Christ, seeking to connect students at Montana State University with God's grace and call to lead lives of spiritual and ethical integrity in and for the world.
For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…
Providing religious service for adults and youths
St. John's Lutheran Ministries is a community of diverse people sharing God's healing presence. Our mission is to provide living opportunities within nurturing environments of hope, dignity & love.
Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
How this is measured
306 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. 306 of the 668 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 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Montana Family Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN ↗
- Who funds GREATER IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA METH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF HELENA DBA OPTIONS WOMENS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds The Her Campaign ↗
- Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHERS IN THE FIELD ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
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 · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Treacy Foundation · Oro y Plata Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gianforte Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gianforte Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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