Montana · Nonprofit
FAMILY SERVICE
FAMILY SERVICE (Montana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,465,890 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($330,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Family Service does
Mission
Family Service prevents hunger, homelessness and poverty in yellowstone county and surrounding areas through community involvement. This is accomplished through focusing on the core values of hope, compassion, dignity, respect, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Prevention of hunger and homelessness and combating the symptoms of poverty through client assistance programs including educational assistance, back to school supply programs, food services, rental and utility assistance and other vital basic subsistence provision.
$7,783,756 spentof which $6,159,976 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,783,756.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.1M to $9.4M (+33%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of FAMILY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ryan Cremer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $298k → $310k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $895k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Family Service of Billings Foundation); $13k from 2 payers (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Johnson Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FAMILY SERVICE raised.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
FAMILY SERVICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% 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 FAMILY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 29% · 2019 32% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 44% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of FAMILY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
FAMILY SERVICE draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
FAMILY SERVICE's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY SERVICE
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Family Service of Billings Foundation · exempt
- Family Service Qalicb · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY SERVICE: 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 FAMILY SERVICE?
- FAMILY SERVICE (Montana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,465,890 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($330,000). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,465,890 in grants to FAMILY SERVICE, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY SERVICE?
- THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY SERVICE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing