· Public charity
United Way of Cascade County
Mobilize community resources to positively impact priority human service needs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $106,300 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH | $51,000 |
| OPPORTUNITIES INC | $35,000 |
| CASCADE COUNTY LAW CLINIC | $31,000 |
| KAIROS YOUTH SERVICES | $27,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| PEACE PLACE RESPITE CARE | $19,900 |
| VOICES OF HOPE | $18,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS | $16,000 |
| VETERAN'S AND ADULT TREATMENT COURTS | $16,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS GREAT FALLS | $15,000 |
| CASA-CAN CHILDREN'S ADVOCATE NETWORK | $15,000 |
| FEED MY SHEEP KITCHEN | $13,000 |
| HAVRE FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - HAVRE | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCASCADE COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL9× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +24%
- OIOPPORTUNITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +44%
- AFALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +8%
- BBBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF GREAT FALLSone grant, 2017 · $9k
- HFHEISEY FOUNDATION CO US BANKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +126%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.
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.
A christian organization committed to caring for the hungry, hurting, and homeless of north central montana.
Partner with childcare providers, families, and stakeholders to improve the quality of programming and expand the availability of childcare options in central montana.
To assist victims of housing discrimination in the state of montana.
Central montana head start is an early learning center that empowers the whole child and family through health, education, and self-sufficiency.
The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.
To build upon the economic base in flathead county by assisting business startups and expansion activities with resources and valuable connections. montana west delivers local business economic development services targeted to impact job…
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
Provide food to the community; engage, educate and lead our community against hunger.
Partnership health center ensures that accessible, comprehensive primary healthcare is provided to the medically underserved population in our region, through a partnership of community resources.
For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heisey Foundation Co Us Bank. 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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CASCADE COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS-CASCADE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KAIROS YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS' EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds CASCADE COUNTY LAW CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity International ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds Tobys House Crisis Nursery Inc ↗
- Who funds DANDELION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MOUNT GREAT FALLS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC OF GF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL DYNAMICS INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT IV HUMAN RESOURCE DEV COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MONTANA UNITED INDIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA ↗
- Who funds FEED MY SHEEP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEISEY FOUNDATION CO US BANK ↗
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.
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
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 United Way of Cascade County 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.
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.