Montana · Nonprofit
Butte Rescue Mission
Butte Rescue Mission (Montana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,328 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,188,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Butte Rescue Mission does
Mission
The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into society as self-sufficient, productive citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Butte Rescue Mission Behavioral Health Drop-In Center offers a safe, welcoming daytime space for individuals experiencing homelessness, poverty, mental health challenges, and substance use recovery for Butte and the surrounding area. The Center provides essentials such as a place to rest, access to clean restrooms and showers, laundry, coffee and snacks, along with recovery activities, step groups, therapeutic art, life skills classes and connections to community resources. Trained staff and Peer Support Specialists offer support, guidance and referrals to services such as mental health care, addiction counseling, housing, employment and healthcare, helping reduce isolation and crisis while promoting stability, recovery and improved wellbeing.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
On a daily basis, the Butte Rescue Mission food program provides three hot meals, sack lunches and food boxes for those members of the community who are food insecure. In 2025, generous donors gifted 276,454 pounds of good to our program enabling us to serve 111,674 meals to those in need.
$624,401 spent42% of program spendingThe Butte Rescue Mission's Restoration program was established to provide the next step toward stability and health for those experiencing homelessness and poverty. Our temporary on-site living program empowers guests to be proactive in their goal of overcoming personal obstacles, gaining stability in their daily lies and progressing toward recovery. We provide individualized case management, access to counseling, job training programs, addiction recovery support and on-site healthcare providers. In 2025, our program helped 35 individuals obtain stable housing, 82 obtained employment or sustainable income, 124 individuals obtained sobriety, 118 obtained addiction recovery and 28 families were kept from living on the streets. Our dedicated staff and community partners invested over 43,575 work hours to our guests in Life Advising, Programming and Academics.
$359,843 spent24% of program spendingThe Butte Rescue Mission's low barrier emergency shelter stands as a vital resource in the Butte community addressing the basis needs of transient and homeless people on a nightly basis. Our facility offers warm, dry beds, food, water, clothing, clean restrooms, showers, and laundry services. As the initial point of contact for those in crisis, the Mission strives to establish a positive connection with our nightly guests in the hope that they can be encouraged to seek continued, more expanded services that are offered in our transitional program. In 2025, the shelter served over 383 unique individuals, equating to 20,710 nights of secure shelter.
$279,562 spent19% of program spendingThe Butte Rescue Mission Behavioral Health Drop-In Center offers a safe, welcoming daytime space for individuals experiencing homelessness, poverty, mental health challenges, and substance use recovery for Butte and the surrounding area. The Center provides essentials such as a place to rest, access to clean restrooms and showers, laundry, coffee and snacks, along with recovery activities, step groups, therapeutic art, life skills classes and connections to community resources. Trained staff and Peer Support Specialists offer support, guidance and referrals to services such as mental health care, addiction counseling, housing, employment and healthcare, helping reduce isolation and crisis while promoting stability, recovery and improved wellbeing.
$221,017 spent$214,137 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,484,823.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $5.2M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 30% · 2021 34% · 2024 11% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $17k → $225k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Butte Rescue Mission’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
Butte Rescue Mission leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 36% · 2023 22% — 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
63% of Butte Rescue Mission's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
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
92% of Butte Rescue Mission's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is 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.
Organizations like Butte Rescue Mission
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Butte Rescue Mission: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission?
- Butte Rescue Mission (Montana) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,646,328 to it, the largest being TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,188,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Butte Rescue Mission have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,646,328 in grants to Butte Rescue Mission, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Butte Rescue Mission?
- TOWN PUMP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,188,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Butte Rescue Mission 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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