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· Public charity

United Way of Yellowstone County Inc

To address the needs of yellowstone county and to improve lives by connecting and collaborating for a thriving community.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
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$1.3MYouth Development$675kCrime & Legal$371kEducation$167kCommunity Improvement$159kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEAD START$38,196
VETERANS NAVIGATION NETWORK$35,000
ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE$31,792
YWCA$31,792
DISTRICT 7 HRDC$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-EASTERN MONTANA$20,000
FAMILY SERVICE INC$20,000
YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START$20,000
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC$19,306
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS-READING ROCKS$18,915
EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS-BACKPACK MEALS$10,000
TUMBLEWEED$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA$10,000
YELLOWSTONE CASA$10,000
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, $661k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TUMBLEWEED: $30k → 9%TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $25k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $22k → 9%Tumbleweed Runaway Program Inc: $20k → 9%TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $20k → 9%TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $20k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $19k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $19k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $19k → 9%TUMBLEWEED: $10k → 9%BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $10k → 9%Big Sky Senior Services Inc: $58k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $40k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $40k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $40k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $35k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $32k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $30k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $30k → 9%Adult Resource Alliance: $25k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE MEALS ON WHEELS: $18k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 9%ADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 9%BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 9%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 19% of United Way of Yellowstone County Inc’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, 86%.

United Way of Yellowstone County Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 14 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$2.7M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS MONTANA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +11%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $374k · revenue +89%
  • YC
    YELLOWSTONE CASA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AI
    AWARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
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
Yellowstone County Assistance Network

To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.

Human Services
2
Yellowstone Behavioral Health

Provide quality mental health services to residents of park county

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3
Youth Dynamics Inc

Youth dynamics provides family focused behavioral health treatment founded on the principles of an actively caring and trauma sensitive culture in which people can realize their full potential.

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4
Youth Alternative Home Association

The group home and shelter is for the long and short term care, guidance and education of troubled youth age 10 to 17 in southwest wyoming. we arrange for them to be in counseling but do not provide this service.

Human Services
5
Youth Home Inc

To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…

Health
6
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter

Yellowstone valley animal shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.

Animals
7
Friends of the Children - Montana

Friends of the children montana has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
8
Community Youth Services

Empowers youth at-risk and their families to meet goals for safety, stability, belonging and success by providing a continuum of individualized services and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Family Services Inc

Strengthening mental health and families to build a resilient and connected community.

Human Services
10
Mountain Home Montana Inc

To provide a safe, stable , and nurturing home where young mothers can discover their strengths, and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

Human Services
11
Youth Shelters & Family Services Inc

To deliver life-changing services to homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth in northern nm.

Human Services
12
Child Care Resources

Child care resources' mission is to help kids grow into successful adults by enriching the learning environment of their crucial early years.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Navigation Network. 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

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $283,000 · Human ServicesBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INCFAMILY SERVICE: $241,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICETUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $184,375 · Human ServicesTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INCADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $164,292 · Human ServicesADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUN…DISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $159,375 · Human ServicesDISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUN…+1 more: $29,306 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS MONTANA: $375,543 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRIS…EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $68,915 · OtherEDUCATION FOUNDATIO…DISTRICT 7 HRDC: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $373,750 · ReligionFRIENDSHIP HOUS…YELLOWSTONE CASA INC: $311,875 · Crime & LegalYELLOWSTONE …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $246,250 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF T…YOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $125,625 · EducationHEAD START INC: $38,196 · EducationVeterans Navigation Network: $45,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$1,061,598Other$479,458Religion$373,750Crime & Legal$311,875Youth Development$291,250Education$163,821Health$55,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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 budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS MONTANA: $375,543 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $373,750 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CASA INC: $311,875 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetBIG SKY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $283,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $246,250 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $241,250 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $184,375 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $164,292 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetDISTRICT 7 HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $159,375 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG FAMILIES EARLY HEAD START: $125,625 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR BILLINGS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $68,915 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVeterans Navigation Network: $45,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHEAD START INC: $38,196 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $29,306 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAWARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

First Interstate Banc…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Town Pump Charitable …Brosovich Family Foun…Donald & Carol Robert…Montana Community Fou…Charles M Bair Family…The Mary Alice Fortin…Billings Community Fo…Scl Health - MontanaGianforte Family Char…Otto Bremer Trust
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT35.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Brosovich Family Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Charles M Bair Family Trust · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Scl Health - Montana · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust

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 Yellowstone County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Yellowstone County Inc. 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
    8report 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 19 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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