Montana · Nonprofit
GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,273 to it, the largest being DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($429,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Great Falls Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the gfps foundation is to enhance the high-quality teaching and life-long learning for the students in the great falls public schools by funding innovative educational programs and scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide funds to programs that enhance opportunities for excellence for our most vulnerable students and our brightest students and teachers.
$1,042,052 spentof which $941,153 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,042,052.
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 $9.5M to $7.7M (−19%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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
Stephanie Becker
Executive director
Board chair
Joanie Agamenoni
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $80k → $170k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $45k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Benefis Health System Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 68% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 16% · 2022 57% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
69% of GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k 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
GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Great Falls School District No 1 & A · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,712,273 to it, the largest being DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($429,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,712,273 in grants to GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $429,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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