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Montana Mental Health Trust at a glance

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Montana Mental Health Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.0MHuman Services$490kCrime & Legal$401kYouth Development$292kHousing & Shelter$235kEducation$211kEmployment$156kReligion$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $296k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$257k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREATER IMPACT INC$15,000
ST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE$15,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES$15,000
MESSENGERS FOR HEALTH$14,931
BUTTE CARES INC$4,667
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA HELENA: $75k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $71k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $28k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $52k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $23k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $50k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: $10k → 11%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $49k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $44k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - EASTERN MONTANA: $23k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $25k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $25k → 9%NEVER ALONE RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES: $20k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME & SERVICES: $25k → 9%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $15k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 22 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-8%

Still filing today

55%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • MH
    MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +303%
  • BD
    Bozeman Deaconess Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • PM
    PIONEER MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $184k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MB
    MSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGR
    one grant, 2019 · $86k
  • MS
    MSU SPONSORED PROGRAMS CBT
    one grant, 2019 · $62k
  • MB
    MSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $57k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
3
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation

Dedicated to empowering community partners to achieve health care quality goals.

Health
4
Center for Mental Health

The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.

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5
Scenic Montana Trails
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6
Health Equity Solutions
Science & Tech
7
Western Montana Mental Health Center

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…

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8
Partnership Health Center Inc

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.

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9
Providence St Joseph Medical Center

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.

Health
10
Jamhi Health & Wellness Inc

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…

Health
11
Montana Meth Project

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…

Health
12
Blue Mountain Clinic Inc

The mission of Blue Mountain Clinic is to provide individualized, choice-based healthcare that respects the power of personal connection.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children Eastern Montana; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEWIS & CLARK COUNTY: $175,747 · OtherLEWIS & CLARK COUNTYTRIBAL DEFENDERS OFFICE CSKT: $164,181 · OtherTRIBAL DEFENDERS OFFICE CSKTSHODAIR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $149,676 · OtherSHODAIR CHILDREN'S HOSPITALAVICENNA LLC: $147,120 · OtherAVICENNA LLCIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGR: $86,087 · OtherMSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRMSU SPONSORED PROGRAMS CBT: $61,587 · OtherMSU BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: $57,394 · OtherGALLATIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $56,392 · OtherHORSEPOWER: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $320,975 · Other+12 moreMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $289,589 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA IN…YWCA HELENA: $80,000 · Human ServicesYWCA HELENAFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $65,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME…GREATER IMPACT INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesGREATER IMPACT INCCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $60,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE Y…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA: $45,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN …+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER: $184,244 · HealthPIONEER MEDIC…Montanas Peer Network: $101,330 · HealthMontanas Peer…ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthST PATRICK HO…PUREVIEW HEALTH CENTER: $15,000 · HealthMESSENGERS FOR HEALTH: $14,931 · Health+1 more: $4,667 · HealthBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $200,000 · PhilanthropyBUTTE SPIRIT CENTER: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterCIT MONTANA INC: $120,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $28,694 · Youth Development
Other$1,394,159Human Services$624,589Health$345,172Philanthropy$200,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Education$120,000Youth Development$103,694

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $289,589 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPIONEER MEDICAL CENTER: $184,244 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBUTTE SPIRIT CENTER: $155,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetMontanas Peer Network: $101,330 over 2y, 20% of budgetYWCA HELENA: $80,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA: $75,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER IMPACT INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $60,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN EASTERN MONTANA: $45,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $28,694 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST PETER'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUREVIEW HEALTH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMontana Healthcare Fo…Montana Community Fou…Town Pump Charitable …First Interstate Banc…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Gianforte Family Char…Headwaters Health Fou…Treacy FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Pacificsource Foundat…One Valley Community …
Otto Bremer TrustMN32× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Montana Mental Health Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Montana Mental Health Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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