Central Montana Foundation

ANNOUNCEMENT: Central Montana Foundation now offers Donor Advised Funds!

Central Montana Foundation is the oldest community foundation in Montana! Organized by a group of visionary businessmen in 1984, the Foundation offers our donors a chance to give back to the community they love.

Our Mission: To receive and accept property exclusively for educational, cultural, charitable or benevolent purposes for the benefit, health and improvement of residents of the Central Montana area is such a way that the quality of life in Central Montana shall be enhanced, working alone and with any and all other persons and organizations doing similar work.

By working through the Foundation, worthy projects are able to provide donors with a tax deductible avenue for donations. CMF has 10 unrestricted permanent endowments from which income is used for its grant-making program. In a typical year CMF grants upwards of $175,000 to local organizations for healthcare, essential services, education, civic, recreational and cultural projects!

Permanent endowments and pass-through funds provide support exclusively to projects within the Central Montana area. CMF holds more than 200 of these funds, including its own unrestricted endowments, 11 rural community endowments, a variety of non-profit and tax-exempt organizations in Central Montana and scholarship funds. The 50+ scholarship endowments provide nearly $200,000 annually to scholarships to local students.

Rural Community Endowments

CMF supports activities in a five-county region of Central Montana including Fergus, Garfield, Judith Basin, Petroleum and Wheatland Counties. CMF also contributes annual grants to rural community endowments in Central Montana including, Denton, Garfield County, Hobson, Judith Basin, Judith Gap, Moore, Roy, Winifred, Petroleum County, Wheatland County and Winifred.

Click here for contact information and rural community grant applications.

Click here for Community Endowments' giving forms.

Central Montana Foundation Board of Directors meet every 4th Tuesday of the month to consider grant requests under $5,000. (Requests $5,000+ are considered once per year at the annual meeting in May. See grant application under the "Applications" tab for more details. Contact us for information by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or calling the Foundation office at 406.538.6130.

Click here for CMF Operating Guidelines

224 W. Main St., Suite 202, P.O. Box 334, Lewistown, MT 59457 • 406.538.6130 • This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.