Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Montana

These 42 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.

42grantmaking charities
$496.8Mgranted between them
3,228funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Montana Community Foundation IncHelena$12,128503$29.3M
Whitefish Community Foundation IncWhitefish$38,713308$52.7M
National Forest FoundationMissoula$35,588307$51.1M
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$15,000104$8.4M
One Valley Community FoundationBozeman$15,338103$9.8M
Montana Food Bank Network IncMissoula$35,39793$94.3M
Central Montana FoundationLewistown$25,00084$22.5M
Foundation to Decrease World SuckMissoula$36,94881$10.5M
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
Roundup for Safety IncKalispell$8,75068$851K
Humanities MontanaMissoula$10,00067$959K
Billings Community FoundationBillings$9,69752$1.3M
Moonlight Community FoundationBig Sky$16,00051$3.3M
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
Montana Watershed Coordination Council IncHelena$6,84740$712K
Honor the EarthLame Deer$7,50039$1.7M
Area II Agency on AgingRoundup$34,60138$12.4M
Scl Health - MontanaBillings$13,25034$78.9M
Zero to Five MontanaHelena$62,25034$2.1M
Greater Yellowstone CoalitionBozeman$14,96733$5.6M
Spanish Peaks Community FoundationBig Sky$25,00032$2.4M
Greater Gallatin United Way IncBozeman$10,00031$757K
Helena Area Community FoundationHelena$13,66730$387K
United Way of Cascade CountyGreat Falls$15,25029$1.9M
Glasgow High School Educational TrustGlasgow$8,00026$732K
Sweet Grass Community FoundationBig Timber$12,56226$1.8M
Montana Justice FoundationHelena$7,50026$3.6M
National Indigenous WomensLame Deer$49,38125$2.7M
Seeley Lake Community FoundationSeeley Lake$8,16923$490K
Bozeman Deaconess Health ServicesBozeman$12,00023$1.7M
Montana Homeownership Network IncGreat Falls$52,98822$4.9M
Hopa Mountain IncBozeman$40,00021$1.4M
Heart of the Rockies FoundationMissoula$75,00021$5.8M
Montana Legal Services AssociationHelena$53,51920$3.8M
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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