Montana · Community foundation
Missoula Community Foundation
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
- $899k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $781k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,213
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $51,160
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Missoula Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $781k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $74k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $551k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $63k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $82k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $192k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morel Society | $159,225 | 2 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Clinic Inc | $109,909 | 5 | 2% |
| Missoula Food Bank & Community Center | $95,585 | 4 | 1% |
| Florence Carlton Community Church | $93,857 | 2 | n/a |
| Tell US Something | $87,287 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Montana Creative Initiatives | $81,114 | 3 | 35% |
| Greater Missoula Youth for Christ | $72,600 | 3 | 4% |
| Missoula County Public Schools | $66,447 | 2 | n/a |
| Accelerate Montana | $62,895 | 2 | 1% |
| Missoula Writing Collaborative | $58,921 | 3 | 6% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Missoula Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The High Stakes Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Missoula County · The Llewellyn Foundation
How this is measured
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About Missoula Community Foundation
- How much does Missoula Community Foundation give?
- Missoula Community Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $780,890, out of $899,276 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Missoula Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Missoula Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Morel Society ($159k), Blue Mountain Clinic Inc ($110k), Missoula Food Bank & Community Center ($96k).
- Does Missoula Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Missoula Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Missoula Community Foundation based?
- Missoula Community Foundation is based in MT.
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