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BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC

BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($93,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$626M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$94k
Net assets
$301M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Benefis Hospitals Inc does

Mission

We provide excellent care for all, healing body, mind and spirit.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Benefis hospitals, inc. Operates a 569 licensed bed, two-campus facility providing acute care, rehabilitation services, and psychiatric health services to the public regardless of ability to pay. The organization provides outpatient medical and surgical services to the public regardless of ability to pay. The organization provides long term care services. The hospital also provides primary care to great falls and the surrounding region through a family practice department. The family practice department sees patients of all ages, from newborn to the elderly. Also provides specialty care to great falls and the surrounding region through our internal medicine and specialty care departments. These departments include internal medicine, neurology, neurosciences, obstetrics, gynecology and infertility, pain management, pediatrics, plastics and reconstructive surgery, pulmonary and critical care medicine, rheumatology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, urology, wound care, anesthesiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, heart and vascular, sports medicine, med spa and vein center. Benefis also provides hospice and senior care services to the public regardless of ability…

    $413,051,307 spentof which $313,196 as grants$554,113,477 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $413,051,307.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($950M) Expenses 100 ($924M) Net assets 100 ($104M)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.0B) Expenses 108 ($997M) Net assets 130 ($134M)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.1B) Expenses 119 ($1.1B) Net assets 178 ($184M)2020 Revenue 53 ($500M) Expenses 47 ($438M) Net assets 238 ($246M)2021 Revenue 59 ($564M) Expenses 56 ($514M) Net assets 286 ($296M)2022 Revenue 57 ($541M) Expenses 57 ($529M) Net assets 298 ($308M)2023 Revenue 60 ($570M) Expenses 60 ($556M) Net assets 311 ($322M)2024 Revenue 66 ($626M) Expenses 70 ($647M) Net assets 291 ($301M)
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Revenue (66)Expenses (70)Net assets (291)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.4B to $962M (−30%).

$520M
$634M
$778M
$926M
$1.1B
$1.2B
$1.4B
$962M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26M
’17
$31M
’18
$50M
’19
$63M
’20
$50M
’21
$12M
’22
$14M
’23
−$21M
’24
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed2023212019191920
Joined·+6+4+1+1+2+3+4
No longer listed·3622233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $26k.

Funder
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'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Benefis Health System Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.

Federal$3.6M
grants $1.7Mcontracts $1.9M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$1.8M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.4M
  • Department of Agriculture$302k
  • Department of Justice$69k
  • Department of Defense$28k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
45%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 11 related entities

  • Benefis Health System Foundation Properties LLC · disregarded
  • Benefis Cascade Ridge LLC · disregarded
  • Benefis Health System Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Benefis Health System Inc · exempt
  • Benefis Medical Group Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC?
BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being American Heart Association Inc ($93,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $93,500 in grants to BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC?
American Heart Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $93,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEFIS HOSPITALS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing