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· Public charity

Montana Federation of Public Employees

Mfpe organizes members and local affiliates for purposes of collective bargaining, contract maintenance, legal defense, legislative and government agency lobbying, and professional development.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$885kMembership Benefit$566kEmployment$438k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $222,342, the rows itemized in this filing. The $230,252 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,910 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$24,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$58,190
MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$38,005
GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$34,430
HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$30,580
BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$24,200
BUTTE TEACHERS UNION$11,587
KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,920
UNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATION$9,150
MERGED MISSOULA CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES ORGANIZATION$5,280
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $35k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $64k → 9%KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 14%BUTTE TEACHERS UNION: $12k → 16%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $35k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $64k → 9%KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 14%BUTTE TEACHERS UNION: $12k → 16%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $35k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $62k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $37k → 14%BUTTE TEACHERS UNION: $12k → 16%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $62k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $37k → 14%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $61k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 11%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $36k → 14%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $33k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $59k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 10%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $36k → 14%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $31k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $59k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 10%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 14%HELENA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $23k → 9%BILLINGS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $58k → 9%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 10%GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $34k → 14%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 10%BOZEMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $23k → 10%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $39k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $37k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $35k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 11 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$1.9M
$2k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BE
    Billings Education Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $488k · revenue +12%
  • MG
    MFPE GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +32% · 28% of their budget
  • KE
    KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BP
    BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Billings Education Association: $487,795 · OtherBillings Education AssociationMISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $297,220 · OtherMISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMFPE GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $289,795 · OtherMFPE GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: $259,802 · OtherMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEESBozeman Education Association: $193,875 · OtherBozeman Education AssociationKALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $92,700 · OtherBUTTE TEACHERS UNION: $92,696 · OtherUNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATION LOCAL 119 OF THE MFPE: $77,910 · Other+4 more: $97,068 · Other
Other$1,888,861

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBillings Education Association: $487,795 over 8y, 25% of budgetMISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $297,220 over 8y, 27% of budgetMFPE GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $289,795 over 8y, 28% of budgetMONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: $259,802 over 8y, 35% of budgetBozeman Education Association: $193,875 over 8y, 49% of budgetKALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $92,700 over 8y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATION LOCAL 119 OF THE MFPE: $77,910 over 8y, 3.3% of budget
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 Billings Education Association ↗
  • Who funds MISSOULA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MFPE GREAT FALLS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA FEDERATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ↗
  • Who funds Bozeman Education Association ↗
  • Who funds KALISPELL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATION LOCAL 119 OF THE MFPE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Montana Federation of Public Employees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Montana Federation of Public Employees. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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