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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 FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.3MAnimals$602kFood & Nutrition$366kArts & Culture$75kCrime & Legal$65kPublic Benefit$55kRecreation & Sports$51k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $472,361 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $517,361 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $246k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USDA FOREST SERVICE$246,492
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT$29,925
CANNON HERITAGE CONSULTANTS$23,820
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING - RUCK$21,296
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MEETEETSE CONSERVATION DIST$16,200
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BUFFALO CENTER OF THE WEST$15,000
IDAHO FISH & WILDLIFE$15,000
CNTR FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONS$15,000
MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS$11,000
COLORADO ST UNIV FOUNDATION$10,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO$10,000
PARK CTY ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL$8,628
CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION$7,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200k → 7%TETON COUNTY ID: $15k → 7%HENRYS FORK WILDLIFE ALLIANC: $10k → 12%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $28k → 9%YELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $250k → 10%RUBY VALLEY CONSERVATION DIST: $6k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%LEGACY PHILANTHROPY: $31k → 14%NTHN ROCKIES CONSERV CO-OP: $10k → 14%CANNON HERITAGE CONSULTANTS: $24k → 12%TROUT UNLIMITED: $10k → 7%JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUND: $10k → 5%WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOC: $22k → 10%WY DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION: $100k → 10%MEETEETSE CONSERVATION DIST: $16k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING - RUCK: $21k → 17%HENRYS FORK WILDLIFE: $6k → 12%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25k → 9%CINNABAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%LEGACY PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON: $6k → 5%WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 10%BUFFALO CENTER OF THE WEST: $25k → 11%IDAHO DEPT OF FISH AND GAME: $10k → 12%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $15k → 9%MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS: $11k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%LEGACY PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 14%BUFFALO CENTER OF THE WEST: $15k → 11%NATIONAL PARK CONS ASSOC: $10k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS: $10k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%FOREST SERVICE: $125k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT: $30k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT: $25k → 10%PARK CTY ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL: $9k → 10%GATEWAY ARCH & FENCE: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Greater Yellowstone Coalitionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$882k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
16

Total granted

$1.4M
$766k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +72%
  • IF
    Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +25%
  • LP
    LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $62k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • YF
    YELLOWSTONE FOREVERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +287%
  • TM
    THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +248%
  • AR
    AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
    one grant, 2023 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
3
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
4
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
7
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
8
Montana Conservation Elders
Environment
9
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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10
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
11
Wood River Land Trust Co

The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.

Environment
12
Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is The Cinnabar Foundation Co Moulton and Turner. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USDA FOREST SERVICE — $616,074 · OtherUSDA FOREST SERVICEWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT — $309,500 · OtherWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENTTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $200,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA) — $125,000 · OtherAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA)WY DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION — $100,000 · OtherWY DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION+14 more — $272,637 · Other+14 moreYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $250,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVERTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCELEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS — $61,546 · EnvironmentLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKSCentennial Valley Association Inc — $50,276 · EnvironmentCentennial Valley Associat…CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION — $25,000 · Environment+4 more — $40,378 · Environment+4 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $67,500 · AnimalsIdaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation — $65,000 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $21,500 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 · AnimalsJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $54,925 · Public BenefitBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAIN TIME ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $11,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,623,211Environment$577,200Animals$174,000Public Benefit$54,925Arts & Culture$50,000Civil Rights$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $150,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $67,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation — $65,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS — $61,546 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $54,925 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCentennial Valley Association Inc — $50,276 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $21,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHENRYS FORK WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC — $16,250 over 2y, 13% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN TIME ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNorthern Rockies Conservation Cooperative — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …National Fish and Wil…Marin Community Found…Wyoming Community Fou…The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Nature ConservancyPatagoniaorgThe Knobloch Family F…Defenders of WildlifeCross Charitable Foun…Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…National Forest Found…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Greater Yellowstone Coalition funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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