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Scl Health - Montana

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

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$16M
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$102MEducation$3.8MHuman Services$430kCommunity Improvement$187kRecreation & Sports$162kPhilanthropy$51kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
  • $250k+2 grants · $18M
$17,950
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC$16,013,372
ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$1,774,234
COMMUNITY CRISIS CENTER$82,000
HELP CENTER INC$25,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$24,500
MONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES$22,500
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$22,500
MONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$21,000
BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$20,500
BILLINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$17,950
LEADERSHIP MONTANA INC$10,000
ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
THE SCRIPPS HOWARD FOUNDATION$10,000
LOCKWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 26$10,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$10,000
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, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELP CENTER INC: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%RIVERSTONE HEALTH: $164k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH: $153k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH: $78k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH: $73k → 9%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $50k → 9%YMCA: $30k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%RIVERSTONE HEALTH: $28k → 9%COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $25k → 9%YMCA: $13k → 9%YMCA: $11k → 9%YMCA: $10k → 9%BILLINGS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $8k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $8k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $28k → 9%ST JOHN LUTHERAN: $15k → 9%ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ST JOHN LUTHERAN: $8k → 9%ST JOHNS LUTHERAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%ST JOHNS FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$105M · 27 repeat orgs$657k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$105M
$585k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • SO
    SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $86M · revenue +47%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +117%
  • MS
    Montana State University Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +315%

Funded once

  • BC
    BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $133k · revenue +163%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +29%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +20%

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
Billings Clinic

Billings clinic's mission is quality, compassionate cre for all, with a vision of reimagining health care through connection, service and innovation.

Health
2
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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3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Benefis Community Hospitals Inc

Benefis community hospitals, inc. (bch) provides medical care and serves as an economic pillar in rural montana communities by supporting the role of critical access hospitals.

Health
5
St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health
6
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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7
Logan Health - Shelby

Logan health shelby is a 21-bed 501(c)(3), non-profit, community critical access hospital located in shelby, montana. the hospital serves toole county and surrounding communities providing emergency care, acute care, skilled swing bed…

Health
8
Montana Healthcare Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Montana Contractors Association Inc

Promotion and development of montana's construction industry.

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10
Big Sky Care Connect

The purposes of the corporation shall be specifically to operate a statewide coordinated health information exchange and related services to enhance clinical care in the community and to improve and promote public health care in the…

Health
11
Catholic Social Services of Montana

Based on our commitment to catholic social teaching, catholic social services of montana provides for works of advocacy, compassion, pastoral outreach, education and social justice.

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12
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr12%1%35–55yr13%98%55yr+

The field is 23% 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%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,357

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

55 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. 55 of the 59 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $86,486,594 · HealthSISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC+8 more — $721,800 · HealthST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $13,341,490 · OtherST VINCENT HEA…+25 more — $689,709 · OtherMontana State University Foundation Inc — $3,212,100 · EducationWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY — $148,729 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $145,500 · Education+3 more — $90,750 · EducationMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,006,000 · PhilanthropyYWCA OF BILLINGS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $106,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $40,915 · PhilanthropyRiverStone Health Foundation — $525,664 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE — $90,000 · Human ServicesBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC — $70,500 · Human ServicesBILLINGS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VIN — $58,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSt John's Foundation — $32,500 · Human Services+4 more — $88,000 · Human ServicesMONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES — $127,500 · Recreation & SportsBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $67,500 · Community ImprovementNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON — $28,773 · Community Improvement
Health$87,208,394Other$14,031,199Education$3,597,079Philanthropy$1,152,915Human Services$914,664Recreation & Sports$127,500Community Improvement$96,273

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 budgetSISTERS OF CHARITY OF LEAVENWORTH HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $86,486,594 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetST VINCENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $13,341,490 over 8y, 23% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $3,212,100 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,006,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetRiverStone Health Foundation — $525,664 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetCommunity Crisis Center LLC — $492,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE — $145,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION — $133,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMONTANA AMATEUR SPORTS INC DBA BIG SKY STATE GAMES — $127,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetYWCA OF BILLINGS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $106,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $93,149 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE — $90,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $89,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBILLINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $75,450 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC — $70,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $67,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBILLINGS DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VIN — $58,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC — $40,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSt John's Foundation — $32,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC — $31,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH DYNAMICS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATON — $28,773 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC — $28,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONTANA INC — $27,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetST JAMES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $26,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBILLINGS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $26,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetROSE PARK PTA — $25,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetBILLINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHELP CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN MONTANA — $24,800 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Ministries Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $21,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOLY ROSARY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY INC — $15,915 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY — $13,310 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIMROCK FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Scripps Howard Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG HORN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAMSEY KELLER MEMORIAL — $9,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CARBON CO — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Charles M Bair Family…Town Pump Charitable …Donald & Carol Robert…Treacy FoundationSample Foundation IncThe Mary Alice Fortin…Otto Bremer TrustGE McDonald FoundationDan & Jeanne Scott Fa…
Montana Community Foundation IncMT60.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Treacy Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · GE McDonald Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family 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 Scl Health - 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%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 59 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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