Montana · Community foundation
Helena Area Community Foundation
To provide financial assistance to nonprofits benefiting lewis & clark county residents. Fundraising costs to build endowment for grants, which is the exempt purpose.
- $86k
- Granted FY2023
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $8k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $7,560
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $7,560
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 30
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $662k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Helena Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 1 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $379k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Promise of Greater Helena Inc | $24,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Region IV Family Outreach Inc | $19,475 | 1 | 1% |
| Explorationworks Inc | $17,670 | 2 | 1% |
| Good Samaritan Ministries Series 900 LLC | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shodair Children's Foundation | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadwater Productions Inc Grandstreet Theatre | $14,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Montana Preservation Alliance Inc | $14,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Florence Crittenton Home and Services | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Judicial District Casa-Gal Program | $14,000 | 1 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helena Area Community Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Treacy Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · McBride Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Speyer Family Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Helena Area Community Foundation
- How much does Helena Area Community Foundation give?
- Helena Area Community Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $7,560, out of $85,811 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Helena Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Arts & Culture (22%), Community Improvement (17%).
- Who are Helena Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: Family Promise of Greater Helena Inc ($24k), Region IV Family Outreach Inc ($19k), Explorationworks Inc ($18k).
- Does Helena Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helena Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation.
- Where is Helena Area Community Foundation based?
- Helena Area Community Foundation is based in MT.
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