Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Montana

These 39 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Montana that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

39grantmaking charities
$434.9Mgranted between them
2,818funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded. A grantmaker supporting sixty groups is a more realistic prospect than one writing two very large cheques, which is why this is not ranked by dollars.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Montana Community Foundation IncHelena$12,000411$21.5M
National Forest FoundationMissoula$31,830240$33.7M
Whitefish Community Foundation IncWhitefish$37,535240$36.2M
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncMissoula$17,819202$21.4M
Climate Ride IncMissoula$13,370113$6.4M
Park County Community FoundationLivingston$18,777104$9.3M
Care Camps FoundationBillings$15,00096$7.0M
Montana Food Bank Network IncMissoula$35,39793$94.3M
Central Montana FoundationLewistown$25,00084$22.5M
One Valley Community FoundationBozeman$15,40082$7.5M
Montana History FoundationHelena$9,50075$793K
Climate Conservation Dba CenterBozeman$12,50073$2.1M
Montana Community Development CorpMissoula$8,50070$703K
Yellowstone Club Community FoundationBozeman$20,00069$10.1M
Foundation to Decrease World SuckMissoula$36,94869$8.2M
Humanities MontanaMissoula$10,00067$959K
Roundup for Safety IncKalispell$8,80057$669K
Missoula Community FoundationMissoula$15,24944$1.5M
Red Lodge Area Community FoundationRed Lodge$10,57142$3.0M
Western Organization of ResourceBillings$50,00042$23.0M
Moonlight Community FoundationBig Sky$18,50041$2.4M
Montana Watershed Coordination Council IncHelena$6,84740$712K
Billings Community FoundationBillings$9,18039$987K
Area II Agency on AgingRoundup$35,26038$10.0M
Honor the EarthLame Deer$7,50035$1.7M
Scl Health - MontanaBillings$13,25034$78.9M
Helena Area Community FoundationHelena$13,66730$387K
United Way of Cascade CountyGreat Falls$15,25029$1.9M
Sweet Grass Community FoundationBig Timber$12,56226$1.8M
Greater Gallatin United Way IncBozeman$10,00026$585K
Montana Justice FoundationHelena$7,50026$3.6M
Glasgow High School Educational TrustGlasgow$8,00025$628K
Spanish Peaks Community FoundationBig Sky$25,00025$1.1M
Greater Yellowstone CoalitionBozeman$10,00025$5.1M
Bozeman Deaconess Health ServicesBozeman$12,00023$1.7M
Montana Homeownership Network IncGreat Falls$34,22821$3.3M
Hopa Mountain IncBozeman$40,00021$1.4M
Heart of the Rockies FoundationMissoula$75,00021$5.8M
Montana Legal Services AssociationHelena$45,40620$2.2M
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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