Montana · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY (Montana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,422,551 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($1,354,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What United Way of Missoula County does
Mission
United Way of Missoula County builds a better community for all, especially in the areas of education, financial stability, and health. We collaborate with diverse community partners to identify important social issues and bring together resources to address them. We give donors a trusted way to support critical services for people in need, and we make sure that donations are invested wisely.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
form 990, part iii, line 4a - program service accomplishmentsthrough broad-based, results-oriented collaborations with other nonprofits, donors, businesses, the university of montana, local and county government, the school district, the faith community and other diverse partners, united way drives progress in implementing solutions to identified priorities in its three areas of focus.united way also serves as a conduit for donors who desire a trusted, one-stop way to invest in high-quality programs that produce measurable results, ensuring that charitable dollars are spent wisely and well in the community. current initiatives in which united way plays a leadership role in terms of visioning, convening, funding, staffing, and in-kind assistance include the following:education: missoula zero to five (working to ensure that all children arrive at kindergarten ready to learn and thrive)dolly parton's imagination library (free book-gifting program that promotes kindergarten readiness); back to school backpacks (annual school-supply drive).financial stability: reaching home: missoula's 10-year plan to end homelessness. united way remains the plan's principal private-sector fundraiser…
$1,323,748 spentof which $9,006 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,323,748.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $2.1M (−27%).
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: 2017 3% · 2020 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 14% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Susan Hay Patrick
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $169k → $334k.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 46% · 2021 70% · 2022 27% · 2023 15% — 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
68% of UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
75% of UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $758k 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
UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY: 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 UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY (Montana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,422,551 to it, the largest being HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA ($1,354,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,422,551 in grants to UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY?
- HEADWATERS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MONTANA is the largest funder on record, with $1,354,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34 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