· Private foundation
McBride Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Helena Food Share Inc | $12,000 |
| Friendship Center of Helena Inc | $10,000 |
| Indian Law Resource Center | $7,500 |
| Holter Museum of Art Inc | $5,000 |
| Wild Montana | $3,500 |
| Last Chance Tours | $3,334 |
| YWCA of Helena | $3,334 |
| Shodair Children's Hospital | $3,333 |
| Intermountain Children's Home | $3,333 |
| Florence Crittenton Home | $3,333 |
| Soroptimist Club of Helena | $2,500 |
| Montana Historical Society | $2,500 |
| St Labre Indian School Educational Asso | $2,500 |
| Women's Foundation of Montana | $2,500 |
| Fort William Henry Harrison Militar | $2,333 |
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 (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 7% of McBride Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHELENA FOOD SHARE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +87%
- FCFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +146%
- HAHELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- FJFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
- FJFIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-FALone grant, 2017 · $4k
- FWFORT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
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.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
To heighten the public's awareness of conservation districts and their activities as well as to promote soil and water conservation.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 43 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
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 HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLTER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GODS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WILLIAM HARRISON MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Childrens Home ↗
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds HELENA UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTANA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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 · Helena Area Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Wall Family-Power Townsend Foundation · United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust · Merlin Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McBride Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McBride Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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