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· Public charity

United Way of Butte and Anaconda

A community focused organization of caring volunteers who efficiently raise and allocate funds for qualified providers through identification and communication of local needs.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$93kYouth Development$90kHousing & Shelter$67kHealth$13kEducation$13kRecreation & Sports$6kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH$4,500
COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES INC$4,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTTE SILVER-BOW INC$4,000
ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE CORPORATION$4,000
COPPERVILLAGE MUSEUM AND ART CENTER$2,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING$2,000
ANACONDA COMMUNITY INTERVENTION INC$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE CORPORATION: $8k → 14%Project Care: $5k → 14%ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE CORPORATION: $5k → 14%ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE CORPORATION: $4k → 14%ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE CORPORATION: $4k → 14%Family Outreach Inc: $8k → 16%REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH: $5k → 16%REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH: $5k → 16%REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH: $5k → 16%REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH: $4k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of United Way of Butte and Anaconda’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 89%.

United Way of Butte and Anacondalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 10 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$256k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+38%

Still filing today

90%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEmploymentEducationHealthOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF BUTTE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +36%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNSELING & CORRECTIONAL SERV ICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +39%
  • GB
    GREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $31k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • SS
    Safe Space Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +38%
  • KC
    Kiwanis Children's Sunshine Camp
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • AP
    Advocacy Program of Southwest Montana
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Logan Community Services Inc

Logan Community Services is a non-profit organization founded to assist individuals and families to have healthier, safe, and more satisfying lives, being an advocate for youths, and bringing information and education to the community.…

Health
2
Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming

Provide activities for low income children

Youth Development
3
Youth Crisis Center

Crisis mission: to provide temporary care and shelter for abused, abandoned or neglected children long term mission: to provide a residency program for children without a stable home.

Housing & Shelter
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Missoula

To provide independent, trained advocates for the best interests of children within the judicial system who are at substantial risk or have experienced abuse or neglect, and to provide consistent, long-term advocacy until every child…

—
5
Multi-County Youth & Family Services Inc

Community-based counseling, social services, prevention and diversionary youth services program. Provides child abuse/neglect and/or family violence crisis intervention, prevention and treatment to families & children

Human Services
6
Broadwater County Social Services

Broadwater County Social Services Committee (BCSSC) acts as a networking organization for agencies and groups that provide physical and mental health support to residents of Broadwater County. The group provides information, makes people…

Human Services
7
The Children's Center of Southwest

Provide safe place for various agencies to meet with and interview abused children.

Crime & Legal
8
Anaconda Pca Family Resource Center

Promote the safety and well-being of children and families residing in deer lodge, granite and powell counties.

Human Services
9
Payne County Youth Services Inc

Payne County Youth Services, Inc. is dedicated to providing free quality services for the positive development and recovery of children, youth, and families.

Human Services
10
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

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11
Boys and Girls Club of Missoula County

Through meaningful connections, we ignite curiosity and unlock opportunities-empowering every child with the confidence and tools to shape their future and strenghten their community.

Youth Development
12
Sierra County Child Abuse Council

Child abuse awareness and prevention

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Counseling & Correctional Serv Ices Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anaconda Ministerial Project Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF BUTTE: $67,065 · OtherBIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF BUTTEGREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE: $30,863 · OtherGREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVI…Safe Space Inc: $17,800 · OtherSafe Space IncKiwanis Children's Sunshine Camp: $6,000 · OtherAdvocacy Program of Southwest Montana: $5,000 · OtherCOPPER VILLAGE MUSEUM & ART CENTER: $4,500 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COUNSELING & CORRECTIONAL SERV ICES INC: $65,450 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY COUNSELING & CO…REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesREGION IV FAMILY OUT…ANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE: $26,139 · Human ServicesANACONDA MINISTERIAL…YES YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUTTE LITERACY PROGRAM INC: $12,600 · EducationANACONDA COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONINC: $5,000 · Health
Other$133,228Employment$65,450Human Services$52,639Youth Development$18,000Education$12,600Health$5,000

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 budgetBIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF BUTTE: $67,065 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING & CORRECTIONAL SERV ICES INC: $65,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BUTTE COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE SERVICE: $30,863 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetREGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INC: $26,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANACONDA MINISTERIAL PROJECT CARE: $26,139 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetYES YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $14,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetANACONDA COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONINC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOPPER VILLAGE MUSEUM & ART CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING: $4,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Sample Foundation IncGianforte Family Char…Town Pump Charitable …The Jesse A Cole MD C…Headwaters Health Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The Jesse A Cole MD Charitable Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Butte and Anaconda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Butte and Anaconda. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    7report 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
    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.

    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 14 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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