2025 Impact Report
Expanding Access
We’re building on the knowledge, experience and talents of community organizations and partners to address social and economic factors that influence health in our communities.
invested through grants and sponsorships
organizations served by Blue Impact grants
people served by Blue Impact grants
based on most recent reporting cycle
Optimal Health Outcomes
As a health insurer, our clinical teams help members close gaps in preventive care and manage chronic conditions that have a big impact on health and well-being.
These efforts specifically target immunizations, diabetes care, cardiovascular care, early-detection cancer screenings, behavioral health, and maternal and infant health.
Through the Blue Impact major grant program, we invested in organizations finding innovative ways to close these gaps in their communities. More than $470,000 in Blue Impact grants awarded in 2025 included nearly $190,000 toward efforts addressing these areas.
Montana State University is using Blue Impact funding to prepare Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to meet the needs of rural communities.
BCBSMT administers the Caring Foundation of Montana as an in-kind donation to ensure all Montanans have access to preventive health care services, regardless of insurance coverage or ability to pay.
The Caring Foundation’s Care Van® mobile health program brings immunizations and other services to communities across the state. We’re also the presenting sponsor of the Governor’s Cup, which raised more than $105,000 in 2025 to support the Caring Foundation’s work.
Care Van events
immunizations and other health services provided via Care Van events
participants in Governor’s Cup events
Locally Defined Health Solutions
The people and organizations on the ground in our communities are best able to meet the diverse health and human service needs of the people who live there. That’s why locally defined health solutions are a focus of our Blue Impact investments.
One of our 2025 Blue Impact grants is enabling Montana Conservation Corps to enroll nearly 300 participants in hands-on outdoor service, including dozens of Piikuni tribal members. The expeditions foster resilience and purpose as participants learn problem-solving and job skills while preserving public and tribal lands.
Another Blue Impact partner, Friends of the Children – Western Montana, is doubling its capacity to serve 32 youths and families with mentoring and other resources, including referrals and transportation for medical and mental health care, tailored to meet the needs of the Indigenous children and families of the Flathead Reservation.
Economic Opportunity and Stability
Many of our community investments are aimed at addressing poverty, barriers to employment job creation and skills development so our members and neighbors are better able to achieve their best health.
Blue Impact grants awarded in 2025 are helping community organizations provide basic supplies to low-income students, removing barriers to health care and medication for guests of the Flathead Warming Center and enabling more students from across the state to participate in Montana Historical Society field trips.
The Angel Fund, a longstanding community partner, provides financial assistance to Helena School District children to help them buy clothing, backpacks, shoes and other resources needed to be successful in school.
BCBSMT also helps with the Angel Fund’s yearly Stuff the Bus school supply drive and its Running for Montana’s Future race, which partners with local police to buy new shoes for Helena youth.
Neighborhood and Built Environment
The physical structure of our communities has profound effects on health and well-being. We’re all better able to thrive with access to safe and affordable housing, transportation, and space for exercise and recreation.
A new outdoor Fitness Court® unveiled in Glasgow in last fall is the first of 10 planned across the state, made possible through a collaboration between BCBSMT, National Fitness Campaign and local community partners.
The Fitness Courts provide free access to exercise spaces and equipment designed for users to leverage their own body weight for a complete workout. The Glasgow location is within a 10-minute walk or bike ride for more than 10,000 people.
A Blue Impact grant awarded in 2025 is supporting Prickly Pear Land Trust’s Don’t Fence Me Trail Run in Helena’s South Hills and education programming that promotes recreation for all, regardless of age, ability and income status.
estimated annual Fitness Court uses
people within 10-minute
walk or bike ride of Fitness Court
Nutrition
Through a combination of grants, sponsorships, direct funding and food donations, we contributed more than $240,000 in 2025 to address hunger and food insecurity in ways that meet the needs of local communities. And BCBSMT employees volunteered more than 200 hours with community organizations fighting hunger.
A 2025 Blue Impact grant provides continued support for Montana Food Bank Network, one of our longstanding community partners. The funding is advancing MFBN’s efforts to end hunger in Montana by expanding access to its summer food program with meal boxes and new food service sites on tribal reservations.
Green City Harvest, another Blue Impact partner, grows more than 120,000 pounds of food on four urban farms and distributes it to Missoula service organizations. More than 300 households receive a weekly share of vegetables during the growing season.
Our Care Van program, meanwhile, delivered food boxes and turkeys to communities including Pablo, Fort Belknap, Lame Deer and Rocky Boy through partnerships with MFBN and Essential Eats Distributing.