Montana · Public charity
Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District
Promoting responsible and sustainable year-round tourism.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $59k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $67k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $44k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $30k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missoula Area Youth Hockey Assn | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Outdoor Blogger Summit | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Montana | $47,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Missoula County Public Schools | $21,349 | 2 | n/a |
| Missoula Mountain Bike Coalition | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Mtcx | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Carousel for Missoula Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Special Olympics Montana Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missoula Area Youth Hockey Assn | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Outdoor Blogger Summit | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Montana | $47,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Missoula County Public Schools | $21,349 | 2 | n/a |
| Missoula Mountain Bike Coalition | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Mtcx | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bitter Root Cultural Heritage Trust Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Carousel for Missoula Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Special Olympics Montana Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montana Grizzly Lacrosse | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Orvis Company | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana Natural History Center | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Warrior Movement | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zootown 406 Classic Club - Zootown Basketball Youth Club | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Stevensville High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missoula Legion Hellgate Post 27 Baseball Program | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Idaho Affiliate Of Susan G Komen | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missoula Downtown Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Missoula Softball Association | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District 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 · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District
- How much does Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District give?
- Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District reported 4 itemized grants totaling $58,500, out of $109,209 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (80%), Arts & Culture (14%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missoula Area Youth Hockey Assn ($85k), Outdoor Blogger Summit ($60k), The University of Montana ($47k).
- Does Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Community Foundation Inc, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District based?
- Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District is based in MT.
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