How much does United Way of Cascade County give?

United Way of Cascade County reported 28 grants totaling $535,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Cascade County fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Youth Development (16%), Crime & Legal (10%).

Who are United Way of Cascade County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul ($530k), Opportunities Inc ($465k), Alliance for Youth Inc ($437k).

Does United Way of Cascade County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cascade County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.

Where is United Way of Cascade County based?

United Way of Cascade County is based in MT.

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Montana · Public charity

United Way of Cascade County

Mobilize community resources to positively impact priority human service needs

$535k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $12,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $106,300
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 21; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations United Way of Cascade County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$531k	16%
FY2024	20	$480k	15%
FY2023	21	$448k	10%
FY2022	17	$424k	0%
FY2021	17	$441k	0%
FY2020	17	$384k	6%
FY2019	21	$392k	10%
FY2018	21	$375k	5%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.1MYouth Development$624kCrime & Legal$391kHousing & Shelter$323kFood & Nutrition$186kHealth$123kEducation$51kEmployment$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul	$529,776	9	4%
Opportunities Inc	$465,298	9	1%
Alliance for Youth Inc	$437,192	9	10%
Great Falls-Cascade County Senior Citizens Center	$280,930	9	18%
Department of Public Health & Human Services	$257,290	8	n/a
Kairos Youth Services	$199,590	9	4%
Young Parents' Education Center	$176,078	9	19%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cascade County	$157,101	9	3%
Presbyterian Church USA	$141,510	9	n/a
YWCA Great Falls	$126,950	9	3%

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All grantees of United Way of Cascade County by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul	$529,776	9	4%
Opportunities Inc	$465,298	9	1%
Alliance for Youth Inc	$437,192	9	10%
Great Falls-Cascade County Senior Citizens Center	$280,930	9	18%
Department of Public Health & Human Services	$257,290	8	n/a
Kairos Youth Services	$199,590	9	4%
Young Parents' Education Center	$176,078	9	19%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cascade County	$157,101	9	3%
Presbyterian Church USA	$141,510	9	n/a
YWCA Great Falls	$126,950	9	3%
Cascade County Law Clinic	$124,750	9	38%
Montana Homeownership Network Inc	$118,000	7	1%
Casa of Cascade County	$101,796	6	10%
Habitat for Humanity International	$100,700	8	4%
Great Falls Children's Receiving Home	$96,450	9	2%
Family Promise of Great Falls	$71,675	7	8%
Tobys House Crisis Nursery Inc	$64,700	6	8%
Get Fit Great Falls	$56,950	7	n/a
Dandelion Foundation Inc	$56,650	4	88%
Great Falls School District No 1 & A	$44,350	5	n/a
Eagle Mount Great Falls	$37,122	4	2%
Neighborhood Housing Services Inc of Gf	$33,000	2	1%
Community Health Care Center Inc	$31,000	2	0%
Rural Dynamics Inc	$27,800	2	3%
District IV Human Resource Dev Council	$21,000	1	1%
Montana United Indian Association	$17,000	2	3%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Montana	$13,250	2	1%
Feed My Sheep Kitchen Inc	$13,000	1	n/a
The Salvation Army	$12,000	1	n/a
Center for Mental Health	$11,000	1	0%
Sunburst Unlimited	$11,000	2	n/a
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Great Falls	$9,000	1	n/a
Heisey Foundation Co US Bank	$7,500	1	3%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

United Way of Cascade County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Washington FoundationMT27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Browning Kimball Foundation · Montana Healthcare Foundation · Herb Waltermire Comm Enhancement Fndt Inc · Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Joseph N Blanenbaker Ch Tr · Montana Homeownership Network Inc

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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About United Way of Cascade County

How much does United Way of Cascade County give?: United Way of Cascade County reported 28 grants totaling $535,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does United Way of Cascade County fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (55%), Youth Development (16%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are United Way of Cascade County's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul ($530k), Opportunities Inc ($465k), Alliance for Youth Inc ($437k).
Does United Way of Cascade County fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Cascade County?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Town Pump Charitable Foundation, Montana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is United Way of Cascade County based?: United Way of Cascade County is based in MT.