· Private foundation
Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k87 grants · $635k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION INC | $595,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY | $450,000 |
| HELPING HANDS FUND | $367,500 |
| ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA | $360,000 |
| THE HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $270,000 |
| TRUST-BASED PHILANTHROPY PROJECT | $250,000 |
| ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $235,000 |
| ODYSSEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $200,000 |
| CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES | $200,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $200,000 |
| MINERAL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $200,000 |
| BUTTE 4 C'S | $200,000 |
| MONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER | $160,000 |
| CATALYST MONTANA ORGANIZING FOR JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| WESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
186 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 34 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MNMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +113% · 43% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +106% · 40% of their budget
- MBMONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +68% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- NANATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +264%
- ZTZERO TO FIVE MONTANA STATEWIDE OFFICEone grant, 2021 · $600k
- FCFLATHEAD CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.
The mblc exists to encourage and enact business-friendly policies that create good-paying jobs and make montana a better place to live. the primary purpose of the mblc is to educate the public on important business issues, enable citizens…
To promote public policy solutions that provide increased access to economic opportunities, greater individual freedoms and encourage greater participation in public matters by providing research and recommendation on public policy
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…
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.
Montana's Peer Network is a statewide peer run 501(c)3 non-profit recovery organization with a mission to lead the expansion and development of recovery-oriented behavioral health services in Montana.
Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.
Dedicated to empowering community partners to achieve health care quality goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Association for the Educati On of Young Children and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Philipsburg Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
192 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 192 of the 372 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Never Alone Recovery Support Services ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAISE MONTANA ↗
- Who funds CATALYST MONTANA ↗
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MONTANA YOUTH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Montana Healthcare Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Food Bank Network Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Treacy Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.