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Montana Food Bank Network Inc

Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. We are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and families in all 56 counties and all 7 reservations, in partnership with our over 330 network…

$30M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
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Itemized, FY2024
$637k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$525,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$23M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fast Blackfeet$525,000640%
Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc$43,53850%
Center Pole$20,00091%
Arlee Community Development Corporation$15,00043%
Valley Community Emergency Food Bank Inc$10,0008n/a
Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul$7,19290%
Twin Bridges-Mt Farmers Market and Food Pantry$6,4143n/a
Helping Hands in Hardin Inc$5,00092%
St Labre Indian School$5,0008n/a

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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.

Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT140× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Oro y Plata Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Homestead Foundation Inc · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Montana Healthcare Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Montana Food Bank Network Inc

How much does Montana Food Bank Network Inc give?
Montana Food Bank Network Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $637,144, out of $29,640,486 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Montana Food Bank Network Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (100%).
Who are Montana Food Bank Network Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Fast Blackfeet ($525k), Human Resource Development Council of District IX Inc ($44k), Center Pole ($20k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Montana Food Bank Network Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Gianforte Family Charitable Trust.
Where is Montana Food Bank Network Inc based?
Montana Food Bank Network Inc is based in MT.

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 9 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $29M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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