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Providence Health & Services - Montana

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$951k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$4.4MHuman Services$635kHousing & Shelter$298kCommunity Improvement$212kEducation$181kPhilanthropy$83kFood & Nutrition$47kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $951k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$432M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$950,653
MISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP$50,000
MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $478k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $75k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $30k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $30k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC: $25k → 9%UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $28k → 9%YWCA MISSOULA: $70k → 9%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 9%MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 9%MISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 9%YMCA MISSOULA FAMILY: $25k → 9%MISSOULA AGING SERVICES: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 14 repeat orgs$722k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
22

Total granted

$5.2M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+54%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SP
    ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +151%
  • PC
    POVERELLO CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $205k · revenue +88%
  • GM
    GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA
    3× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -24%
  • WC
    WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +52%
  • CC
    CITY CLUB MISSOULA
    one grant, 2019 · $70k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce

An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.

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3
Habitat for Humanity Missoula Inc

Habitat for humanity of missoula is a nonprofit, ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing in our community and throughout the world.

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4
Scenic Montana Trails
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5
Holy Rosary Healthcare

We reveal and foster god's healing love by improving the health ofthe people and communities we serve, especially those who are poorand vulnerable.

Health
6
Missoula Developmental Service Corp

Mdsc, doing business as the arc western montana, provides people with developmental disabilities and their families with the skills, tools, and supports that foster self-determination and inclusion, so they thrive as integrated members in…

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7
Montana Continuum of Care Coalition

The purpose of the montana continuum of care coalition is to end homelessness in montana through effective leadership and collaboration. (to make homelessness in montana rare, brief and non-recurring)

Housing & Shelter
8
Mountain Pacific Quality Health Foundation

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

Health
9
Montana Hospital Association

Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.

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10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Montana

Keeping families with a sick child/children close to the care and resources they need, when it matters the most.

Health
11
Missoula Community Health Services Inc

Mineral community hospital provides quality healthcare services regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. although reimbursement for services rendered is critical to the operation of the hospital, it…

Health
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poverello Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr12%81%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
1,832/14,012

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,404,605 · HealthST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+3 more — $55,500 · HealthDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES — $1,602,600 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVIC…CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF MONTANA — $175,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF MONTANA+16 more — $440,397 · Other+16 moreGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $175,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN H…WATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesWATSON CHI…YWCA MISSOULA — $70,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MISSO…MISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesMISSOULA A…Catholic Social Services — $35,000 · Human ServicesCatholic S…CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC S…UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF MISSOULA — $27,600 · Human ServicesPOVERELLO CENTER INC — $205,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $160,000 · Community ImprovementMISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY — $166,400 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $6,000 · Education
Health$2,460,105Other$2,217,997Human Services$547,600Housing & Shelter$245,000Community Improvement$173,000Philanthropy$166,400Education$126,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,404,605 over 6y, 17% of budgetPOVERELLO CENTER INC — $205,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA — $175,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF MONTANA — $175,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY — $166,400 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetMISSOULA ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $160,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $85,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWATSON CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGARDEN CITY HARVEST INC — $48,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMISSOULA AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN MONTANA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION OF MISSOULA — $27,600 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMISSOULA DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION — $26,901 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMISSOULA URBAN DEMONSTRATION PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER — $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCrosswinds Recovery — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON — $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Town Pump Charitable …Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Headwaters Health Fou…Otto Bremer TrustGianforte Family Char…United Way of Missoul…Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Max and Betty Swanson…The Bill & Rosemary G…The Llewellyn Foundat…Sample Foundation Inc
Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT39.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Otto Bremer Trust · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · United Way of Missoula County · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Max and Betty Swanson Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher Foundation · The Llewellyn Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc

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 Providence Health & Services - Montana 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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