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Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$595k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$6.2MHealth$5.3MHuman Services$4.9MCommunity Improvement$2.7MPublic Benefit$2.4MCivil Rights$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.0MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k87 grants · $635k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$128M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BUTTE 4 C'S$200,000
ODYSSEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER$200,000
CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES$200,000
MINERAL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$200,000
LINCOLN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$200,000
MONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER$160,000
CATALYST MONTANA ORGANIZING FOR JUSTICE$150,000
WESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT$150,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WATSON CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $25k → 9%PROMISE686: $8k → 9%ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA: $500k → 9%WATSON CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $8k → 9%HEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%PROMISE686: $8k → 9%ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA: $360k → 9%HEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%PROMISE686: $8k → 9%HEARTISM COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%MONTANA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK INC DBA RAISE MONTANA: $150k → 9%SALISH INSTITUTE: $8k → 18%ANACONDA PCA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 14%ACTION INC: $8k → 16%MONTANA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK INC: $60k → 9%MONTANA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK INC: $50k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $8k → 11%KOOTENAI HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $8k → 17%NURTURING CENTER INC: $8k → 11%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $8k → 11%ANACONDA PCA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $8k → 14%KOOTENAI HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $8k → 17%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $10k → 9%KOOTENAI HERITAGE COUNCIL INC: $8k → 17%ANACONDA PCA FAMILY RESORCE CENTER: $8k → 14%NURTURING CENTER INC: $8k → 11%FLINT CREEK CHILDCARE CO: $8k → 11%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $8k → 9%FLINT CREEK CHILDCARE CO: $8k → 11%FLINT CREEK CHILDCARE CO: $8k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $8k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $8k → 11%EUREKA CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $8k → 11%NEVER ALONE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES: $125k → 18%ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA: $850k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $18k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $8k → 9%NEVER ALONE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES: $105k → 18%NEVER ALONE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES: $25k → 18%SAFE HARBOUR INC: $18k → 18%SAFE HARBOUR INC: $10k → 18%FAMILIES FIRST: $8k → 9%FAMILIES FIRST: $8k → 9%S A F E HARBOUR INC: $8k → 18%EMPOWER MT: $33k → 9%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $28k → 9%EMPOWERMT: $15k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 186 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186
149

Total granted

$28M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

61%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MN
    MONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +113% · 43% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +106% · 40% of their budget
  • MB
    MONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +68% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +264%
  • ZT
    ZERO TO FIVE MONTANA STATEWIDE OFFICE
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • FC
    FLATHEAD CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
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
Scenic Montana Trails
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2
Central Montana Childcare Alliance

Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.

Human Services
3
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
5
Montana Business Leadership Council

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…

Community Improvement
6
Montana Policy Action Inc

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

Social Science
7
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
8
Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Montanas Peer Network

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.

Health
10
Northwest Montana Community Land Trust Inc

Provide permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families in the flathead valley and nw montana.

Housing & Shelter
11
Montana Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Association for the Educati On of Young Children; 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.
04the grantee network

192 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. 192 of the 372 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/192
Grantees still filing
115/192
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $2,021,158 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MONTANACONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI: $1,370,000 · OtherCONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAIMINERAL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $1,212,500 · OtherMINERAL COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTLINCOLN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: $1,000,000 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $1,000,000 · OtherIntermountain Deaconess Childrens ServicesBUTTE 4 C'S: $874,000 · OtherMONTANA WOMEN VOTE: $850,000 · Other+138 more: $10,091,252 · Other+138 moreMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $1,642,500 · Community ImprovementMONTANA NO…NATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON: $750,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE AME…MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $265,000 · Community ImprovementMISSOULA C…NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $175,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH-MISS…+3 more: $115,500 · Community ImprovementSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $1,229,500 · EducationSALISH KOO…ODYSSEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $782,000 · EducationODYSSEY EA…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $688,000 · EducationTHE UNIVER…+9 more: $227,500 · Education+9 moreZERO TO FIVE MONTANA: $1,710,000 · Human ServicesZERO TO FI…Never Alone Recovery Support Services: $265,800 · Human ServicesNever Alon…RAISE MONTANA: $260,000 · Human ServicesRAISE MONT…+21 more: $572,250 · Human Services+21 moreUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $1,354,500 · PhilanthropyHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $645,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $1,311,500 · Public BenefitALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC: $557,500 · HealthMONTANA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH: $125,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · HealthHealthy Mothers Healthy Babies the Montana Coalition Inc: $73,500 · Health+4 more: $65,000 · Health
Other$18,418,910Community Improvement$2,948,000Education$2,927,000Human Services$2,808,050Philanthropy$2,029,500Public Benefit$1,311,500Health$921,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZERO TO FIVE MONTANA: $1,710,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMONTANA NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $1,642,500 over 7y, 43% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: $1,354,500 over 5y, 40% of budgetMONTANA BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $1,311,500 over 6y, 48% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $1,229,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $1,000,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetODYSSEY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $782,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON: $750,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $688,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $645,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHELPING HANDS FUND: $592,500 over 5y, 83% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC: $564,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetALL NATIONS HEALTH CENTER INC: $557,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $485,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE: $412,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetMISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE: $400,900 over 3y, 50% of budgetWESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT: $275,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC: $266,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNever Alone Recovery Support Services: $265,800 over 5y, 35% of budgetMISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetRAISE MONTANA: $260,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetCATALYST MONTANA: $231,675 over 3y, 12% of budgetHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $220,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetNORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $175,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSOUTHWEST MONTANA YOUTH PARTNERS: $157,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetMONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTANA PARTNERSHIP TO END CHILDHOOD HUNGER INC: $149,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $137,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE COALITION: $117,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetMONTANA FREE PRESS: $105,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $92,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHealthy Mothers Healthy Babies the Montana Coalition Inc: $73,500 over 4y, 28% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC: $72,600 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMAPS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetEMPOWER MT: $70,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $52,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFERSON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFAMILIES IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMONTANA TWO SPIRIT SOCIETY: $45,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GLACIER COUNTRY: $42,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $42,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 4y, 9.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Town Pump Charitable …Montana Community Fou…Gianforte Family Char…Sample Foundation IncMontana Healthcare Fo…The High Stakes Found…First Interstate Banc…Montana Food Bank Net…Otto Bremer TrustTreacy FoundationThe Bill & Rosemary G…
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT162.2× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 372 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-PF 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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