Montana · Public charity
Montana Justice Foundation
To achieve equal access to justice for all montanans through effective funding and leadership.
- $843k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $779k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $616,150
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Montana Justice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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 | 14 | $779k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $634k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $277k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $431k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $593k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $934k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $493k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $671k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Legal Services Association | $4,020,689 | 9 | 17% |
| Trust Montana Inc | $347,332 | 5 | 48% |
| Eastern Montana Casagal Inc | $81,750 | 8 | 5% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $81,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Montana Fair Housing Inc | $70,499 | 9 | 3% |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $64,664 | 1 | n/a |
| Yellowstone Casa Inc | $47,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Billings Family YMCA Inc | $40,625 | 6 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Partners for Justice Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana Legal Services Association | $4,020,689 | 9 | 17% |
| Trust Montana Inc | $347,332 | 5 | 48% |
| Eastern Montana Casagal Inc | $81,750 | 8 | 5% |
| The University of Montana Foundation | $81,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Montana Fair Housing Inc | $70,499 | 9 | 3% |
| Department of Public Health & Human Services | $64,664 | 1 | n/a |
| Yellowstone Casa Inc | $47,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Billings Family YMCA Inc | $40,625 | 6 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Partners for Justice Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Montana | $28,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Casa of Lake & Sanders Counties | $26,700 | 5 | 3% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Billings Montana | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Haven | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Casa of Cascade County | $24,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Billings Mediation Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Dispute Resolution Center of Missoula | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Montana Innocence Project | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Casa for Kids Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Community Mediation Center | $17,500 | 3 | 16% |
| Montana Generational Justice | $16,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Missoula | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cascade County Law Clinic | $13,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Sanders Co Coalition For Families | $13,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Casa of Hill County Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Restorative Youth Justice | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa of Yellowstone County | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Service | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Montana Justice Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Otto Bremer Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Casagal Association · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · United Way of Yellowstone County Inc · Billings Community Foundation · The Angora Ridge Foundation
How this is measured
About Montana Justice Foundation
- How much does Montana Justice Foundation give?
- Montana Justice Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $778,850, out of $843,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Montana Justice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (96%), Education (2%), Employment (1%).
- Who are Montana Justice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Montana Legal Services Association ($4.0M), Trust Montana Inc ($347k), Eastern Montana Casagal Inc ($82k).
- Does Montana Justice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Montana Justice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Sample Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc.
- Where is Montana Justice Foundation based?
- Montana Justice Foundation is based in MT.
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