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Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS seeks to ensure north america's outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in a natural setting, through education and work on behalf of wild public lands and waters.

$45k
Granted FY2023
3
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$28k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$16,391
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Backcountry Hunters & Anglers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$28k100%
FY20224$156k100%
FY20202$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$137kAnimals$50kRecreation & Sports$10kEducation$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Backcountry Hunters & Anglers supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTheodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHunters of Color: $16,391 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMontana Wilderness Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Sportsmen's Foundation: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

How much does Backcountry Hunters & Anglers give?
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers reported 3 itemized grants totaling $27,591, out of $44,941 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Backcountry Hunters & Anglers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Animals (25%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Backcountry Hunters & Anglers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc ($50k), National Wildlife Federation ($50k), Trout Unlimited Inc ($50k).
Does Backcountry Hunters & Anglers fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Backcountry Hunters & Anglers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Backcountry Hunters & Anglers based?
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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