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Visual of the counties in Western Montana that Headwaters funds
Habitat for Humanity of Ravalli County – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. We are a non-governmental non-profit organization devoted to building simple, decent and affordable housing. We believe everyone deserves a decent and safe place to live.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
CASA of Lake County – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Through the work of well-trained, experienced volunteer advocates, we represent the best interests of all abused and neglected children in the 20th Judicial District Court and help to establish safe and stable homes and improve the lives of the children we serve.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
Hopa Mountain – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To strengthen food security systems for rural and tribal communities in Montana
Grant Program
Pooled Funds
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Kootenai Heritage Council Inc. – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Kootenai Heritage Council (KHC) is a community-based organization that promotes culture, education, social and economic well-being through all forms of artistic activities in Lincoln County, MT.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lincoln
Anaconda Community Market – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Our mission is to support the community of Anaconda in fostering a connection to Montana farmers, ranchers and local vendors and businesses to find fresh locally grown foods, handmade goods and other Montana made products. By working together, we are creating a stronger, healthier and more sustainable community.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Deer Lodge
Valley Oak Education Resource Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
To help students plan and prepare for college/career, by setting goals, securing scholarships and internships, developing realistic plans and budgets, and assessing choices.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Montana Afterschool Alliance – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Family Power Grants
To support advocacy and efforts to improve access to afterschool programs.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Charlo Community Outdoor Complex – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
To support, encourage and inspire our youth in the discovery of their own unique skills and abilities; to strengthen and to instill in them the values and qualities essential in developing thoughtful, confident and productive young men and women.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
Lincoln Primary Preschool – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Mission: Cooperative, Ownership, Productive, Prepared, Empowered, Respectful
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Deer Lodge
Montana Family ASL – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Montana Family ASL provides language support and resources for deaf* kids and their families. *We use “deaf” to include deaf, hard-of-hearing, deafblind, deafened, and deaf/disabled people
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Poverello Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Family Power Grants
To support the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness in advocating for policies that better support unhoused community members.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Girls On Shred – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Our mission is to empower youth and marginalized genders including women, non-binary, and trans folk, and build community through action sports skill-building, equipment sharing, and accessible community events.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Montana Free Press – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support independent reporting on issues relating to both health and Indigenous communities in Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Social Justice Fund NW – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Simple Grants
To support community organizing in Montana around a broad set of social determinants of health issues affecting communities.
Grant Program
Pooled Funds
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
TFS Community Hall – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
To provide a space for our community to gather, celebrate, learn, and stay connected.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lincoln
Partnership Health Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Family Power Grants
To support community organizing to empower community members to take action on local issues impacting their health.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Empower MT – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Family Power Grants
To support youth and community leadership development that advances equity, inclusion, and violence prevention across Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Front Step Community Land Trust – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Family Power Grants
To support organizing and advocacy around housing affordability.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
St Peter’s Health Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$175,000
Family Power Grants
To support the Helena Early Childhood Collaborative in building parent, youth and caregiver power to advocate for issues impacting their health and wellbeing.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
INDIJ Public Media – 2025
Grant Amount
$80,000
Family Power Grants
To support ICT’s reporting on issues that impact health and Indigenous communities in Western Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Montana Two Spirit Society – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Family Power Grants
To support the health, visibility, and leadership of Two Spirit and Native LGBTQ+ communities through culturally grounded programming and advocacy.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Forward Montana Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support youth civic engagement through cultivating youth’s sense of belonging, purpose, and leadership in voter engagement and other civic spaces.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Southwest Montana Youth Partners – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Family Power Grants
To support youth leadership, community connection, and access to prevention and wellness programming across rural southwest Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Jefferson
406 for Kids – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
406 For Kids’ mission is centered around spreading joy, happiness, and fun to children and their families facing the challenges of childhood illness and injury. The organization is dedicated to transforming difficult situations into moments of happiness and relief, striving to uplift spirits and provide much-needed respite to parents and families during their child’s hospitalization.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Flathead
Montana Land to Hand – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Land to Hand’s mission is to build a strong community food system that fosters socially just ways of accessing food.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Flathead
The Shekinah Kitchen – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
To create a safe and welcoming space where everyone, regardless of their circumstances, can enjoy a hot, nutritious meal.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Sanders
Plains Community Food Bank – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
We thrive to fight hunger. Our purpose is to assist those who need a little extra help obtaining food.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Sanders
Florence Community Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Our mission is to create a safe space that connects education, community, and athletics to lifelong health and wellness.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Literacy Volunteers of America- Bitterroot – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The mission of Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) Bitterroot is to provide free, confidential instruction to enable Ravalli County adults to become literate or complete their high school equivalency diploma so they can succeed as workers, parents and citizens. We also help people get ready to enter college or the workforce.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Basin School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
At Basin Elementary School we are in a unique position to maximize each individual child’s inherent potential due to a multitude of factors which include the structure of each classroom, small student to teacher ratio, community involvement, and strong parent teacher interaction.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Jefferson
Yaak Food Cupboard – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Yaak Food Cupboard is committed to doing their part in ending hunger in their little corner of Montana. They do this by providing access to and distributing nutritious foods and other basic needs to the Yaak Valley, with a smile, dignity and respect to all that cross our path.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lincoln
Anaconda Community Intervention Inc. – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Empowering our community to create positive choices with our youth!
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Deer Lodge
Missoula Writing Collaborative – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
We partner with schools and communities to teach the imaginative power of language. We embrace creativity, empowerment, inclusion, and excellence. We build communities of hope and compassion through writing.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
W F Morrison School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Empowering students to develop good character, achieve academic excellence, and succeed as lifelong learners.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lincoln
Women’s Resource Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
To address domestic and sexual violence and its impact on the community.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Beaverhead
Nk̓ʷusm – Salish Language School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The mission of Nk̓ʷusm is to recreate a process whereby the Salish Language is passed from parents to children, elder to youth in an effort to holistically preserve the language, perpetuating the Salish way of life and worldview.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
Arlee Rehabilitation Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The Arlee Rehabilitation Center serves the Flathead Indian Reservation, providing a sanctuary where animals heal people and people heal animals.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Anaconda Ministerial Project Care – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Project Care provides a means for people in need to receive food, emergency transportation, medicine, meals, help with power bills or rent and other emergency services.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Deer Lodge
Jeffco Food Share – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The mission of Jeffco Food Share, Incorporated is to provide wholesome foods to any person or family in need of emergency food assistance. Jeffco Food Share, Incorporate shall not resell food it has obtained. This task shall be accomplished by gleaning, collecting and buying food from individuals, wholesalers, farmers and other commercial outlets and redistributing it through an emergency food box program.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Jefferson
Dixon School District #9 – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The Dixon School and Community will provide a safe learning environment and prepare all students to become productive, responsible, and independent members of society.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Sanders
Montana Community Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$61,800
Simple Grants
To support the Funders for Thriving Communities and their work to engage youth in mental health advocacy.
Grant Program
Pooled Funds
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Seeley Lake Elementary – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
The Seeley Lake Elementary School District, in partnership with the community, will provide a safe, respectful academic learning environment guaranteeing citizenship for students, staff and community ensuring that each individual will work to achieve his or her fullest potential.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
MAPS Media Institute, Inc. – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Established in 2004 in rural southwestern Montana, MAPS is a 501c3 educational nonprofit with a mission to empower, inspire, and prepare Montana’s youth for future success through professional media arts instruction, engaging community service, and compassionate mentoring.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Cultivating Connections – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Intended to inspire gratitude, generosity, fraternity, participation, a creative spirit, and a love of Mother Nature, Cultivating Connections teaches real job skills in the Agricultural and Home Arts and act as a catalyst for community building using food as the tool to bring people together through education, participation, and celebration.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Brovold Community Orchard – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Mission Brovold Community Orchard serves the families of western Montana by providing: 1) Free nutritious organic fruit (apples, pears, and plums). 2) Youth and adult education in agriculture and natural resource management. 3) Day-use outdoor recreation in an orchard setting. 4) An events venue for community activities.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Mineral County Community Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Promoting sustainable development of human and natural resources for the benefit of Mineral County communities.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Mineral
Alberton School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Our mission is to partner with families and the Alberton community to provide a safe and respectful learning environment in which students are given the opportunity to develop to their greatest individual potential, both academically and their holistic critical thinking skills, and ultimately become contributing citizens.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Mineral
Bonner School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Establishing and facilitating the confluence of growth, learning, and community.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Darby High School – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Mission: Every student that graduates from Darby Public Schools is college, career, and community ready. Vision: Empower all learners to be culturally aware and to reach their full potential as productive citizens in a globally competitive world. Empower all staff to reach their full potential as innovative and inspiring educators who support all students’ achievement and ensure the physical and emotional health of all.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Our Kids – 2025
Grant Amount
$8,500
GO Grants
Our Kids’ mission is to fulfill the hopes and needs within the community by providing families a means of giving gifts to their young ones.
Grant Program
GO Grants
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lincoln
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