· Public charity
Montana Food Bank Network Inc
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $637,144 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,640,486 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,003,342 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
- $250k+1 grant · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAST BLACKFEET FOOD CENTER (O'YO'P' FOOD PANTRY) | $525,000 |
| GALLATIN VALLEY FOOD BANK | $43,538 |
| CENTER POLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| VALLEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $7,192 |
| TWIN BRIDGES MT FARMERS MARKET AND FOOD PANTRY | $6,414 |
| ST LABRE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| HELPING HANDS IN HARDIN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.
Providing food for those in need.
Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county
food pantry
tohelpfightfoodinsecurity.wereviveandgivedonatedfooditemstothoselessfortunate.
Food bank for needy
To provide food to disadvantaged individuals and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missoula Food Bank & Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Anaconda Ministerial Project Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAST BLACKFEET ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds Center Pole ↗
- Who funds ARLEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands in Hardin Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Montana Food Bank Network Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.