· Public charity
United Way of Cascade County
Mobilize community resources to positively impact priority human service needs
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME | $12,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - HAVRE | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
Central montana head start is an early learning center that empowers the whole child and family through health, education, and self-sufficiency.
Provide food to the community; engage, educate and lead our community against hunger.
To assist victims of housing discrimination in the state of montana.
Family promise of gallatin valley in montana is a non-profit organization working with our community to develop comprehensive, holistic solutions for families facing homelessness. we provide prevention services before families reach a…
To provide therapeutic care and support for the safe and healthy development of children and families.
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…
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Cascade County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Cascade County. Bigger dots raise more.
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