· Public charity
Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District
Promoting responsible and sustainable year-round tourism.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUTDOOR BLOGGER SUMMIT | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA ADAMS CENTER | $14,000 |
| MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER | $7,500 |
| WARRIOR MOVEMENT | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its 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 11% of Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 76%.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSN7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +23%
- MMMISSOULA MOUNTAIN BIKE COALITION2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +11%
- ACA CAROUSEL FOR MISSOULA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -24%
- BRBITTER ROOT CULTURAL HERITAGE TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
Funding and conducting research on issues associated with the ongoing development, infrastructure, historical preservation, and planning of Missoula Midtown and operating educational programs to educate the public about these issues.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
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.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
The organization's primary purpose is to preserve a place of community connection that renews curiosity in our rural roots while ensuring that iconic western montana traditions live for future generations. the organization supports capital…
To promote, regulate and govern amateur hockey in the state of montana.
State-of-the-art pool and fitness center providing members of the mission valley community with opportunities to improve their quality of life through health and fitness in a positive, well-structured and safe environment. programs…
To promote and develop the growth of tennis in the state of montana.
FMP is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of our community through the promotion and support of recreational spaces. We champion the development, maintenance, and conservation of parks, trails, and forestry in Missoula, Montana, and the…
Our mission: fostering personal and community growth through soccer.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 MISSOULA AREA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSN ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA MOUNTAIN BIKE COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BITTER ROOT CULTURAL HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds A CAROUSEL FOR MISSOULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA GRIZZLY LACROSSE ↗
- Who funds MONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA LEGION HELLGATE POST 27 BASEBALL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missoula Tourism Business Improvement District. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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