· Public charity
United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inc
Increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $104,544 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $157,744 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELENA FOOD SHARE | $40,724 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $12,119 |
| ANGEL FUND | $11,334 |
| CASA OF LEWIS AND CLARK | $9,122 |
| FAMILY PROMISE HELENA | $7,637 |
| YWCA OF HELENA | $6,229 |
| RMDC HOME DELIV MEAL | $6,173 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON | $6,026 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,180 |
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 (FY17–21, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- HFHELENA FOOD SHARE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $190k · revenue +87%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL5× · 2017–2021 · $167k · revenue +20%
- GLGODS LOVE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- HIHelena Industries Inc Entity in Bankruptcyone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -100%
- CHCULTIVATE HELENAone grant, 2018 · $317
- VOVOICES OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $40 · revenue +100%
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.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
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.
Opportunities, Inc. partnering within each community, will respectfully support and educate individuals to achieve self-reliance.
Family connections utilizes the strength of community to support exceptional early childhood experiences.
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…
Supporting children and families through individual, community-based services. We provide behavioral health services to severely emotionally disturbed children (ages 2 to 24) and their families.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
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…
Empowering young children and families along a path to their highest potential.
Central montana head start is an early learning center that empowers the whole child and family through health, education, and self-sufficiency.
To provide services and supports, requested and designed by individuals and families who experience disabilities, resulting in choice, control, and family preservation and community inclusion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Helena and the most unlike its peers is Gods Love Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund close more than the field — 10% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 HELENA FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GODS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA ↗
- Who funds THE ANGEL FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HELENA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HOMES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA HELENA ↗
- Who funds FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASA-GAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds REGION IV FAMILY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL DYNAMICS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MONT ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROADWATER COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATIONWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING ↗
- Who funds CAREER TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girls Thrive Inc ↗
- Who funds HELENA AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Helena Area Community Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Wall Family-Power Townsend Foundation · Headwaters Health Foundation of Western Montana · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Sample Foundation Inc · Hauser Lake Home
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 the Lewis and Clark Area Inc 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.
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
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.