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Bozeman Deaconess Foundation

Bozeman Deaconess Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,269,119 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,075,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.5M
Revenue FY2024
48
Funders on record
$6.3M
Grants received
$44M
Net assets
24/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

Bozeman Deaconess Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve16.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($27M)2018 Revenue 92 ($4.1M) Expenses 73 ($2.3M) Net assets 104 ($28M)2019 Revenue 91 ($4.0M) Expenses 147 ($4.5M) Net assets 114 ($31M)2020 Revenue 240 ($11M) Expenses 131 ($4.1M) Net assets 147 ($40M)2021 Revenue 98 ($4.4M) Expenses 139 ($4.3M) Net assets 162 ($44M)2022 Revenue 59 ($2.6M) Expenses 157 ($4.9M) Net assets 134 ($36M)2023 Revenue 123 ($5.5M) Expenses 161 ($5.0M) Net assets 145 ($39M)2024 Revenue 101 ($4.5M) Expenses 119 ($3.7M) Net assets 163 ($44M)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (119)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

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: 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of Bozeman Deaconess Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
17
$1.8M
18
$517k
19
$6.6M
20
$63k
21
$2.2M
22
$460k
23
$788k
24
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $71k → $310k.

8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $200k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money Bozeman Deaconess Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Bozeman Deaconess Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Bozeman Deaconess Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bozeman Deaconess Foundation.

33%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 57% · 2019 41% · 2020 57% · 2021 23% · 2022 51% · 2023 23%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of Bozeman Deaconess Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

61% of Bozeman Deaconess Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.4M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 19 states.

WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 48 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Bozeman Deaconess Foundation

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

In Montana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 10%Fundraising 27%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Bozeman Deaconess Health Services (dba Bozeman Health) · exempt
  • Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital · exempt
  • Deaconess Intercity Imaging LLC · partnership
  • Rocky Mountain Surgical Center LLC · partnership
  • Bozeman HealthUSP Surgery Centers LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bozeman Deaconess Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Bozeman Deaconess Foundation?
Bozeman Deaconess Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,269,119 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,075,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Bozeman Deaconess Foundation have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $6,269,119 in grants to Bozeman Deaconess Foundation, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bozeman Deaconess Foundation?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bozeman Deaconess Foundation 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 48funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing