“The finish line is in sight, but we’re not there quite yet,” St. Aubyn said.

Help Center staff during the September event said they plan to buy the facility for a reduced price of $3.1 million, well under its estimated value of $4.7 million. Bozeman Health and WMMH gifted a $1.6 million land credit to Help Center to reduce the price, staff said at the event.

The money raised so far is enough to close the sale on March 1, St. Aubyn said. Reaching the $4.5 million goal will allow Help Center to renovate the space to meet its needs, she said. The nonprofit’s ability to get up and running in the new space in the fall will depend on completing the renovations, she said.

One recent contribution was a promise from the Yellowstone Club Community Foundation to match $100,000 in donations, the foundation announced in a Jan. 24 press release.

“The $100,000 challenge match is meant to share the message of we’re in this together,” said Ruthi Solari, the foundation’s director of community development. “And so, challenge matches can inherently offer the opportunity to turn $5 into $10 or $5,000 into $10,000 and help the Help Center cross the finish line and celebrate a community-wide success.”

Other donations have come from private donors, corporate sponsors and local foundations. Local couple Andrea and Michael Manship committed about $1.2 million, which includes gifts and a $500,000 match.

The 5.1-acre space has five buildings. The nonprofit’s staff plan to host Help Center’s 24/7 crisis and suicide intervention and prevention programs at the facility, including 988 and 211 call centers, a September press release said. The campus will also be home to the Sexual Assault Counseling Center and the Gallatin County Child Advocacy Center. The nonprofit will also offer its Hearts and Homes program, which offers “onsite family visitation, custody child exchange, and parent coaching services,” the release said.

The Human Resource Development Council plans to operate 10 affordable housing units on the campus. The units are occupied now, and WMMH owns them, HRDC President and CEO Heather Grenier said.

Help Center will take over ownership of the units along with the rest of the campus, Grenier said. HRDC’s role is to manage them and keep them affordable “in perpetuity,” she said. The units have a 20-year use restriction from the state to keep them affordable, which expires in about six years.

After the restriction expires, HRDC hopes to find another way to keep them affordable, like a deed restriction or use agreement, Grenier said.

“Those units have typically served as kind of a supportive housing model, meaning folks that need to be closely connected to behavioral health services,” Grenier said. “And so that’s another part of the goal is preserving that — making sure it’s still available to that demographic and population since there will be behavioral health services on site.”