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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $472,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $517,361 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO$10,000
COLORADO ST UNIV FOUNDATION$10,000
PARK CTY ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL$8,628
CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS: $10k → 10%TOM MINER BASIN ASSOC: $8k → 10%CENTENNIAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%NATIONAL PARK CONS ASSOC: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
OR
WY
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 17% of Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Greater Yellowstone Coalitionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
2
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
3
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
4
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
5
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
6
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
7
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
8
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc

The mission of the grand canyon trust is to safeguard the wonders of the grand canyon and the colorado plateau, while supporting the rights of its native peoples.

Environment
9
Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals
10
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
11
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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12
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · AnimalsJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN TIME ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Rockies Conservation Cooperative: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRIDGER-TETON: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 …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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Yellowstone Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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