Montana · Nonprofit
GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION
GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION (Montana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,216 to it, the largest being ALICE LEE LUND CHARITABLE TRUST ($310,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Great Falls Rescue Mission does
Mission
A christian organization committed to caring for the hungry, hurting, and homeless of north central montana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide shelter to the homeless, including: food, medical services, counseling, lifestyle training, referrals to other agencies, clothing, and spiritual guidance.
$2,525,529 spentof which $622,034 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,525,529.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.8M to $9.9M (+12%).
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 8% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION’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. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $196k → $289k.
9 of 40 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.
From the IRS filings of GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 16% · 2019 35% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 35% — 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
47% of GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
81% of GREAT FALLS 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. $598k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 RESCUE MISSION's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT FALLS 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT FALLS 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 GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION?
- GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION (Montana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,216 to it, the largest being ALICE LEE LUND CHARITABLE TRUST ($310,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,217,216 in grants to GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION?
- ALICE LEE LUND CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT FALLS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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