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Great Falls Public Schools Foundation

The mission of the gfps foundation is to enhance the high-quality teaching and life-long learning for the students in the great falls public schools by funding innovative educational programs and scholarships.

$941k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$583k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$583,422
Largest grant, FY2025
$583,422
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Great Falls Public Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$583k0%
FY20241$1.5M0%
FY20231$688k0%
FY20221$524k0%
FY20211$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$4.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Great Falls School District No 1 & A$4,518,2545n/a

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About Great Falls Public Schools Foundation

How much does Great Falls Public Schools Foundation give?
Great Falls Public Schools Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $583,422, out of $941,153 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Great Falls Public Schools Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Great Falls Public Schools Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Great Falls School District No 1 & A ($4.5M).
Does Great Falls Public Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Great Falls Public Schools Foundation based?
Great Falls Public Schools Foundation is based in MT.

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 1 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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