Family Promise of Great Falls

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462655042
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Great Falls, MT, United States
Phone
406-564-5267
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$334,699
Expenses
$287,577
Assets
$355,067
Liabilities
$12,634

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DESARAE BAKER (PRESIDENT (JAN-AUG))
  • BECKIE FRISBEE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • GREG GROSENICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • GREG GROSENICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $64,688 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Family Promise of Great Falls is a 501(c)(3) organization committed to ending childhood homelessness one family at a time. Our Purpose is to be an organization of staff and volunteers dedicated to providing support and resources to children and their families facing homelessness. Family Promise of Great Falls is a 501​©(3) organization committed to ending childhood homelessness one family at a time. We are one of over 250 affiliated throughout the United States that provide the following programs to fulfill our mission and purpose: Eviction Prevention:** We provide advocacy and mediation services to help families with children remain in their current safe living arrangement so that the children do not experience the trauma of entering a shelter.

What it reported doing in 2025

Family promise of great falls (fpgf) is an organization of staff and volunteers dedicated to the purpose of providing support and resources to children and their families facing homelessness. The volunteers provide mentoring and training for families that address each individual family's immediate needs while at the same time, the fpgf staff provides case management and social services navigation to assist families with accessing all the social services, eviction prevention, skills training, job opportunities, and permanent living arrangements available to them. Fpgf partners with all the social service agencies and with a diverse network of congregations with the goal of ending childhood homelessness. Fpgf operates utilizing five points (con't)of service: shelter, prevention, stabilization, community, and promise. These services are grounded in the philosophy that "every child deserves a home, and every family has promise".

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $63.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.