How much did HELENA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Human Services$95kArts & Culture$59kHealth$24kEducation$21kPublic Benefit$14kCrime & Legal$14kHousing & Shelter$14kEnvironment$13kAnimals$10kOther$124k

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,560

Median grant

States reached

$564k

Total assets

Largest grants

EXPLORATIONWORKS$7,560

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Montana Center for the Arts

Our mission is to enrich the cultural landscape of our community and beyond, providing a platform for creativity, education and entertainment.

Arts & Culture

Montana Ballet Company

Organization's Primary Exempt PurposeMontana Ballet Company's mission is to present high quality dance performances, professional dance training opportunities for children and provide educational outreach programs to under-served…

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Montana Natural History Center

The montana natural history center promotes appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of nature and the environment through education.

Environment

Montana Innocence Project

Because liberty and justice are paramount to democratic society, it is the mission of the Montana Innocence Project to free the innocent and unjustly incarcerated, and advocate for systems of Justice that are accurate, accountable, and…

Crime & Legal

Bozeman Art Museum

To inspire and foster creativity and a love of art through diverse and high quality exhibits programs classes and lectures.

Arts & Culture

Montana Legacy Project

Recreation & Sports

Confluence Public Health Alliance

Confluence public health alliance promotes public health for montanans by providing services that advance innovation and collaboration between public health organizations and the individuals providing programs, services and protections…

Health

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

Montana Homeownership Network Inc

Create sustainable homeownership opportunities and improve the availability of affordable rentals.

Housing & Shelter

Action for Eastern Montana

Action for Eastern Montana is committed to strengthening and enhancing the quality of life within the communities we serve by promoting education, advocacy and dignity for achieving independence.

Human Services

Montana Freshwater Partners Inc

To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.

Environment

Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Helena and the most unlike its peers is Broadwater Productions Inc. 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

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

22/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$160,717Human Services$94,645Arts & Culture$58,860Health$24,000Education$20,598Public Benefit$14,000Crime & Legal$14,000

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.

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.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT40.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark · Treacy Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · McBride Family Foundation · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Speyer Family Foundation · Hauser Lake Home

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 organisation HELENA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: QUEEN CITY BALLET COMPANY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263172267 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on QUEEN CITY BALLET COMPANY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Helena Area Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helena Area Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HELENA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helena Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HELENA AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helena Area Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph