Montana Community Foundation is dedicated to ensuring Montana's future through the power of philanthropy and planned giving. Our primary aim is to create and grow philanthropy in Montana. We are also dedicated to raising awareness of the intergenerational transfer of wealth and capturing some of that wealth in permanently endowed funds for the benefit of charitable organizations who will help ensure our state's future by ensuring their communities flourish.

Montana Community Foundation's key strategies include gift development, donor services, stewardship, financial viability, communications and brand amplification, strengthening networks, community leadership and impact, and talent and organizational development.

Montana Community Foundation (MCF) has assembled an incredible board and staff with diverse backgrounds and talents. MCF has also made significant infrastructure investments to ensure we are well equipped to accomplish our goals.

Montana Community Foundation's (MCF) most quantifiable measure of success is the creation of permanently endowed charitable funds for the benefit of philanthropic purposes in Montana and the growth of those funds. MCF has also developed a number of key performance indicators to track our progress in specific strategic areas.

As of FY15, the Montana Community Foundation manages more than 900 charitable funds and planned gifts for the benefit of Montana. Since 1988, we have reinvested more than $37 million in Montana through charitable grants, scholarships and endowment distributions. Through our efforts, many of the 75 local community foundations serving their communities in Montana were created. From an awareness standpoint, we have significantly raised the profile of philanthropy in Montana as well as the intergenerational transfer of wealth occurring in our state. While we have made significant progress, there is still much work to be done. We would like to capture at least 5 percent of the intergenerational transfer of wealth (approximately $6 billion of the $123 billion of the 50-year transfer beginning in 2010) in permanently endowed funds to benefit philanthropic purposes in Montana.