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Montana Public Health Institute

The MONTANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE optimizes the health and quality of life of montanans by strengthening the public health system through collaboration, leadership and the advancement of health equity.

$141k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$138k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$21,253
Largest grant, FY2025
$38,435
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Montana Public Health Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$138k50%
FY20247$871k29%
FY20236$444kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$1.1MCommunity Improvement$220k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bighorn Valley Health Center Inc$266,47530%
Lewis & Clark County$228,0392n/a
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indi$219,6632n/a
Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center$219,16321%
Flathead County$213,5063n/a
Breaking Chains for Recovery$30,9292n/a
Never Alone Recovery Support Services$18,6821n/a
Beautiful Minds Recovery Montana$18,682110%
Rocky Boy Health Center$18,68210%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Montana Healthcare FoundationMT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Montana Public Health Institute?

Find your warmest path to Montana Public Health Institute 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.

About Montana Public Health Institute

How much does Montana Public Health Institute give?
Montana Public Health Institute reported 6 itemized grants totaling $138,287, out of $141,287 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Montana Public Health Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are Montana Public Health Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Bighorn Valley Health Center Inc ($266k), Lewis & Clark County ($228k), Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indi ($220k).
Does Montana Public Health Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Montana Public Health Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Montana Healthcare Foundation.
Where is Montana Public Health Institute based?
Montana Public Health Institute 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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