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GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME

GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,547 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY ($96,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$605k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$334k
Net assets
$1.9M
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Great Falls Children's Receiving Home does

Mission

It is the mission of the Great Falls Children's Receiving Home to provide a temporary home for abandoned, abused, neglected and homeless children. The receiving home will provide shelter, food, clothing, warmth, love and understanding. It is an open door and truly a home, not an institution.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For over 50 years, the Great Falls Children's Receiving Home has provided safe, temporary shelter to thousands of children who have been removed from their homes of origin due to child abuse, neglect, abandonment, parental drug use, domestic violence, and parental incarceration. Each of these children carries a heartbreaking story of his or her abuse. Our goal is not only to provide these children a safe environment, but to show them that nurturing, compassion and love are the norm and not the exception. We treat each and every child with love, dignity and respect and provide a violence-free, safe, fun environment. We ensure that each child's rights are protected and their childhood preserved. We provide clothing, meals, transportation, recreation, toys, and livelihood for each child who stays with us. It's a big job, indeed, but each and every child is worth it. We served 25 children during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025.

    $525,047 spent$274,574 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $525,047.

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 ($885k) Expenses 100 ($518k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 64 ($564k) Expenses 111 ($575k) Net assets 102 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 81 ($720k) Expenses 111 ($573k) Net assets 113 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 80 ($708k) Expenses 115 ($597k) Net assets 122 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 78 ($692k) Expenses 109 ($562k) Net assets 147 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 71 ($632k) Expenses 107 ($553k) Net assets 132 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 66 ($583k) Expenses 119 ($614k) Net assets 134 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 80 ($705k) Expenses 127 ($660k) Net assets 144 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 68 ($605k) Expenses 118 ($611k) Net assets 143 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (68)Expenses (118)Net assets (143)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+16%).

$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$1.9M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

19% of GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$367k
’17
−$11k
’18
$147k
’19
$111k
’20
$130k
’21
$79k
’22
−$31k
’23
$45k
’24
−$6k
’25
4.2
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.

Chief executive

Grant Vanvranken

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed161417131615131312
Joined·+0+5+1+7+3+3+3+4
No longer listed·22544535
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $50k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME’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

GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME.

29%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% — 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

45% of GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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

64% of GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT
IN
MO
OK

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

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Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME?
GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME (Montana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,547 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY ($96,450). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $333,547 in grants to GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME?
UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $96,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT FALLS CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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