· Private foundation
Montana Mental Health Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTTE SPIRIT CENTER | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $27,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - WESTERN MONTANA | $25,000 |
| LEWIS AND CLARK PUBLIC HEALTH | $24,991 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA | $24,815 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN MONTANA | $22,500 |
| FREE VERSE PROJECT | $21,400 |
| NEVER ALONE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES | $20,000 |
| PUREVIEW HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| GREATER IMPACT INC | $15,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES | $15,000 |
| ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH | $14,931 |
| BUTTE CARES INC | $4,667 |
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 (FY20–25, $532k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MHMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +303%
- BDBozeman Deaconess Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +3%
- PMPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2019–2021 · $184k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- MBMSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRone grant, 2019 · $86k
- MSMSU SPONSORED PROGRAMS CBTone grant, 2019 · $62k
- MBMSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENTone grant, 2020 · $57k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dedicated to empowering community partners to achieve health care quality goals.
The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.
The mission of the western montana mental health center is to assist individuals and communities with the challenges of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders in order to achieve their highest quality of life in a…
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
We provide a comprehensive, co occurring disorder-capable, community behavioral health center. we provide quality care using best practices designed to promote health, wellness, self-determination, and recovery. the service area is the…
The Montana Meth Project is a large-scale prevention program aimed at reducing first-time teen methamphetamine use through public service messaging and educational outreach. Known for our media campaigns that communicate the risks of Meth…
The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children Eastern Montana and the most unlike its peers is Pureview Health Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUTTE SPIRIT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIT MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds Montanas Peer Network ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Free Verse Project ↗
- Who funds Never Alone Recovery Support Services ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PUREVIEW HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Butte Cares 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: Otto Bremer Trust · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Treacy Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · One Valley Community 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 Mental Health Trust 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.
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