How much does Greater Yellowstone Coalition give?

Greater Yellowstone Coalition reported 16 itemized grants totaling $472,361, out of $517,361 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Greater Yellowstone Coalition fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Animals (24%), Food & Nutrition (15%).

Who are Greater Yellowstone Coalition's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wyoming Game & Fish Department ($310k), Yellowstone Forever ($250k), The Montana Land Reliance ($150k).

Does Greater Yellowstone Coalition fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Yellowstone Coalition?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is Greater Yellowstone Coalition based?

Greater Yellowstone Coalition is based in MT.

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Montana · Public charity

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

$517k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 17%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $472k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $246,492
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 11; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Greater Yellowstone Coalition funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$472k	50%
FY2024	6	$175k	17%
FY2023	9	$208k	56%
FY2022	8	$91k	63%
FY2021	11	$594k	45%
FY2020	11	$675k	64%
FY2018	3	$22k	100%
FY2017	2	$53k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.3MAnimals$602kFood & Nutrition$366kArts & Culture$75kCrime & Legal$65kPublic Benefit$55kRecreation & Sports$51k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wyoming Game & Fish Department	$309,500	3	n/a
Yellowstone Forever	$250,000	1	2%
The Montana Land Reliance	$150,000	1	2%
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)	$125,000	1	n/a
National Wildlife Federation	$67,500	3	0%
Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$65,000	4	1%
Legacy Philanthropy Works	$61,546	3	2%
Property and Environment Research Center	$54,925	2	1%
Tom Miner Basin Association	$52,500	7	n/a
Centennial Valley Association Inc	$50,276	7	5%

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All grantees of Greater Yellowstone Coalition by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wyoming Game & Fish Department	$309,500	3	n/a
Yellowstone Forever	$250,000	1	2%
The Montana Land Reliance	$150,000	1	2%
Agricultural Research Service (Usda)	$125,000	1	n/a
National Wildlife Federation	$67,500	3	0%
Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$65,000	4	1%
Legacy Philanthropy Works	$61,546	3	2%
Property and Environment Research Center	$54,925	2	1%
Tom Miner Basin Association	$52,500	7	n/a
Centennial Valley Association Inc	$50,276	7	5%
Buffalo Bill Memorial Association	$40,000	2	0%
THE CINNABAR FOUNDATION CO Moulton and Turner	$25,321	1	n/a
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation	$25,000	2	0%
Cannon Heritage Consultants	$23,820	1	n/a
Wyoming Wilderness Association	$21,500	1	3%
Henrys Fork Wildlife Alliance Inc	$16,250	2	13%
Meeteetse Conservation Dist	$16,200	1	n/a
Western EcoSystems Technology Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Montana Conservation Corps Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Mountain Time Arts	$10,000	1	1%
National Parks Conservation Association	$10,000	1	0%
Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative	$10,000	1	1%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Colorado State University	$10,000	1	n/a
Conservation Voters for Idaho Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Park County Environmental Council	$8,628	1	n/a
Gateway Arch & Fence	$7,500	1	n/a
Ruby Valley Conservation District	$6,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Bridger-Teton	$5,500	1	0%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($812k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greater Yellowstone Coalition supplied at peak.

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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 19.

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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.

Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · The Knobloch Family Foundation · Defenders of Wildlife · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Forest 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 Greater Yellowstone Coalition

How much does Greater Yellowstone Coalition give?: Greater Yellowstone Coalition reported 16 itemized grants totaling $472,361, out of $517,361 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Greater Yellowstone Coalition fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Animals (24%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Greater Yellowstone Coalition's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wyoming Game & Fish Department ($310k), Yellowstone Forever ($250k), The Montana Land Reliance ($150k).
Does Greater Yellowstone Coalition fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Yellowstone Coalition?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Greater Yellowstone Coalition based?: Greater Yellowstone Coalition is based in MT.