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Visual of the counties in Western Montana that Headwaters funds
Borealis Philanthropy – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To support Montana-based disability justice organizations with resources and capacity building.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Native American Student Services – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support Native American Student Services in creating a Student Tribal Council that strengthens student voice, leadership, and cultural connection, while building a deeper sense of belonging and success for Native students in their school community.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
The Village Playspace – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Family Power Grants
To support the Early Childhood Coalition of Beaverhead County in building family power and leadership to advocate on issues that reflect the unique needs of their rural communities.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Beaverhead
Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture and Language Studies – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support Indigenous students in building leadership, identity, and belonging through land based learning, cultural teachings, and language centered education that strengthens their confidence and connection to community.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
United Today, Stronger Tomorrow – 2025
Grant Amount
$60,000
Family Power Grants
To support community organizing and advocacy in rural Western Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Solidaire Network – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To support the safety and resilience of Montana-based organizations who are working towards health equity.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Nk̓ʷusm – Salish Language School – 2025
Grant Amount
$55,000
Family Power Grants
To support engagement, leadership, and sense of belonging of youth and families through cultural programming.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
Social Justice Fund NW – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To support community organizing in Montana around a broad set of social determinants of health issues affecting communities.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
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
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Catalyst Montana – Organizing for Justice – 2025
Grant Amount
$450,000
Family Power Grants
To support community organizing, leadership development, and advocacy on a range of justice topics.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
3 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Glacier Queer Alliance – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support the creation of safe, affirming spaces where LGBTQ+ people in northwest Montana can access community, resources, and belonging while strengthening their health and wellbeing through connection, advocacy, and inclusive programming.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Flathead
Center for ASL Acquisition and Access – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support families with deaf children in building belonging, leadership, and advocacy.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Friends of the Children – Western Montana – 2025
Grant Amount
$100,000
Simple Grants
To support Friends of the Children – Western Montana with general operating support.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Office of Public Instruction- Tribal Student Achievement and Relations – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Family Power Grants
To support Indigenous youth leadership across Montana by investing in culturally grounded training, student voice in education systems, and meaningful opportunities for youth to influence school policy, strengthen leadership skills, and shape safe and connected school climates in partnership with families, schools, Tribes, and community leaders.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
2 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
Western Montana LGBTQ+ Community Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$80,000
Family Power Grants
To support The Center’s work to improve the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ youth and families by connecting them with community, elevating family voice, and creating pathways for engagement and action.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Community Resilience Initiative – 2025
Grant Amount
$250,000
Simple Grants
To support efforts to reduce health inequities by building a more inclusive Missoula.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
University of Montana- The Co-Lab for Civic Imagination – 2025
Grant Amount
$200,000
Family Power Grants
To support engagement of youth and community members around mental health, through the State of Mind project.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
2 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Families for a Livable Climate – 2025
Grant Amount
$40,000
Family Power Grants
To support community organizing around mitigating climate change and its effects.
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
Montana Consortium for Urban Indian Health – 2025
Grant Amount
$250,000
Simple Grants
To support the general operations of the Montana Consortium for Urban Indian Health.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Southwest Montana Youth Partners – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To provide capacity-building support for Southwest Montana Youth Partners’ financial management and communications systems, enhancing their ability to sustain and expand high-impact programs for youth and families in Boulder, Whitehall, and surrounding communities.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Jefferson
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
Montana Advocates for Children – 2025
Grant Amount
$125,000
Simple Grants
To support elevating the voices of child care providers and parents utilizing child care subsidy programs in policy efforts related to improving the child care system.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Reframing Rural – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Family Power Grants
To support storytelling around rural life and health topics in Western Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
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
Bitterroot Early Learning Network – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support family voice and leadership in rural early learning and advocacy.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Ravalli
Missoula Community Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$15,000
Simple Grants
To support their vital services of connecting donors to programs that improve the health and wellbeing of kids and families in our service area.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Missoula Community Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$30,000
Simple Grants
To support the development of Press Forward Montana
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
The Montana Partnership to End Childhood Hunger – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Family Power Grants
To support leadership development and advocacy to strengthen school food systems.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
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
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
Identity Inc. – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Family Power Grants
To support Identity Inc in planning a youth leadership program that strengthens belonging and advocacy for youth living on the CSKT reservation.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Jefferson
Bridgercare – 2025
Grant Amount
$60,000
Family Power Grants
To support Bridgercare in developing and implementing a strong narrative and education campaign to be used across the state that stresses the importance of healthy family planning through stronger data collection, research, storytelling, and advocacy.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Raise Montana – 2025
Grant Amount
$150,000
Family Power Grants
To support general operating of Raise Montana in building leadership among early childhood professionals.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
2 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Montana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Family Power Grants
To support planning and development of the Montana Immunization Coalition.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$150,000
Family Power Grants
To support health news journalism for Western Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
2 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Never Alone Recovery Support Services – 2025
Grant Amount
$150,000
Family Power Grants
To build the power of the recovery community by equipping members with the skills and support needed to influence policies and systems that affect their wellbeing.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
2 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
Snqweylmistn – 2025
Grant Amount
$50,000
Family Power Grants
To support engagement of youth as leaders in shaping foster services within the Flathead Reservation and beyond.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lake
American Indian Governance and Policy Institute – 2025
Grant Amount
$225,000
Family Power Grants
To support research on tribal governance and policy topics that impact Native communities in Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
3 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
Pride Foundation – 2025
Grant Amount
$75,000
Simple Grants
To ensure the Fortitude Fund can provide critical resources to Montana-based organizations working to support LGBTQ+ communities around thier social determinants of health in the current state and national context.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Poverello Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To support capacity-building and planning for the Montana Coalition to Solve Homelessness.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
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
Partnership Health Center – 2025
Grant Amount
$10,000
Simple Grants
General operating support for Partnership Health Center in recognition of their community organizing work.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Missoula
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
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
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
Hopa Mountain – 2025
Grant Amount
$25,000
Simple Grants
To strengthen food security systems for rural and tribal communities in Montana
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
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
Western Native Voice Education Project – 2025
Grant Amount
$450,000
Family Power Grants
To support civic engagement, advocacy, leadership development, and tribal sovereignty.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
3 year
Year
2025
Location
Other
Zero to Five Montana – Statewide Office – 2025
Grant Amount
$500,000
Simple Grants
To provide general operating support to Zero to Five Montana.
Grant Program
Family Power Fund
Grant Term
1 year
Year
2025
Location
Lewis & Clark
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