· Private foundation
Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k77 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,735 |
| MISSION VALLEY SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE | $10,000 |
| MISSOULA AGING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT WEST | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,105 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,595 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,532 |
| PINTER MIKE LECLAIR BARB | $6,000 |
| CATALYST FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,865 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,860 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 89%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +5%
- RTRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $23k · revenue +23%
- MVMISSION VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LLIFTTone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
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.
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.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.
Mdsc, doing business as the arc western montana, provides people with developmental disabilities and their families with the skills, tools, and supports that foster self-determination and inclusion, so they thrive as integrated members in…
Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.
Missoula aging services promotes the independence, dignity, and health of older adults and those that care for them through advocacy, education, services, and volunteer opportunities.
Provide assistance to people with diabilities so that they can live independently.
MountainCare provides supportive and enriching Adult Day Services enabling older adults to age in place. We aspire to be an unwavering partner for adults and those who care for them. Together, we encourage independence, provide meaningful…
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
Empowermt creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequities, and strengthen communities. empowermt envisions a montana where each person is respected…
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
Mental health cooperative inc. (mhc) provides integrated health services that include behavioral health care, primary health care, addiction services, and community-based care management. mhc also provides emergency psychiatric services…
To provide group home and work/day habilitation services to developmentally and intellectually disabled adults under contract with the state of montana, department of health and human series, developmental disabilities division.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 335 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 Montana Association for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH-MISSOULA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marshall and Mary Brondum Special Assistance Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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