Montana · Nonprofit
FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC
FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,043,085 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($809,672). 14 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $240k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Flathead Warming Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to save lives and encourage dignity through low barrier access to a warm safe place to sleep for anyone in need throughout the coldest months of the year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The flathead warming center's mission is to save lives, link people to resources, and encourage dignity through low-barrier access to a warm safe place place for those in need. Our capacity remains 50 beds per night, and we reserve 4 beds for first responders who require beds for individuals they serve. The flathead warming center link program is committed to inviting community resources into the center to meet our most vulnerable population where they are. It is best practice to provide wrap-around care in an environment where an individual is getting their basic needs met. We currently have 15 onsite community resources every week inside the shelter that include medical examinations and mental health assessments, addiction support groups, and more. We link our guests to resources on-site. A link starts with a relationship and is much stronger, with a better outcome, than a referral. Our roadmap initiative builds on our link program. Guests work with our licensed staff to develop an individualized roadmap. The roadmap identifies obstacles and getting them an id to getting them signed up for medicaid to helping them get admitted for treatment for mental health or addiction issues.
$315,134 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $315,134.
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. 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 $48k to $817k (+1612%).
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% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Tonya Horn
Executive director
Board chair
Luke Heffernan
Chairman and cofounder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $13k → $442k.
8 of 26 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.
From the IRS filings of FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 80% · 2020 64% · 2021 30% · 2022 45% · 2023 30% — 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
71% of FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
61% of FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC'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 $787k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC?
- FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC (Montana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,043,085 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($809,672). 14 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 FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,043,085 in grants to FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $809,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER 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.
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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 26 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