How much does Heart of the Rockies Initiative give?

Heart of the Rockies Initiative reported 4 itemized grants totaling $117,018, out of $172,110 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Heart of the Rockies Initiative fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Crime & Legal (12%), Education (4%).

Who are Heart of the Rockies Initiative's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Western Landowners Alliance ($238k), Utah State University ($105k), Madison Valley Ranchlands Group ($66k).

Does Heart of the Rockies Initiative fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of the Rockies Initiative?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land Trust Alliance Inc, Heart of the Rockies Foundation, Blackfoot Challenge Inc.

Where is Heart of the Rockies Initiative based?

Heart of the Rockies Initiative is based in MT.

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Montana · Public charity

Heart of the Rockies Initiative

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative is a partnership of 29 local, regional, and national land trusts in the Central Rockies of North America. Our mission is to ensure connected habitat and working lands for people and wildlife by increasing the pace of durable conservation. We work from common ground to find lasting, locally-driven…

$172k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 11%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $117k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $38,711
Largest grant, FY2024: $63,807
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 13; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $889k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Heart of the Rockies Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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
FY2024still arriving	4	$117k	50%
FY2023	9	$192k	11%
FY2022	13	$204k	62%
FY2021	7	$157k	100%
FY2019	12	$109k	92%
FY2017	2	$25k	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 2024.

Environment$618kCrime & Legal$94kEducation$35kHuman Services$19kCommunity Improvement$19kCivil Rights$18k

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Western Landowners Alliance	$237,575	4	4%
Utah State University	$105,000	3	n/a
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group	$65,512	3	16%
Idaho Coalition of Land Trusts	$63,807	1	33%
The Vital Ground Foundation Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Centennial Valley Association Inc	$19,417	2	7%
Mt Shasta Wild LLC	$18,554	2	n/a
Ruby Valley Conservation Dis	$18,371	2	n/a
Conservation Science Collabor	$18,043	2	n/a
Swan Valley Connections	$18,000	3	1%

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All grantees of Heart of the Rockies Initiative by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Western Landowners Alliance	$237,575	4	4%
Utah State University	$105,000	3	n/a
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group	$65,512	3	16%
Idaho Coalition of Land Trusts	$63,807	1	33%
The Vital Ground Foundation Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Centennial Valley Association Inc	$19,417	2	7%
Mt Shasta Wild LLC	$18,554	2	n/a
Ruby Valley Conservation Dis	$18,371	2	n/a
Conservation Science Collabor	$18,043	2	n/a
Swan Valley Connections	$18,000	3	1%
Confederated Salish and Kootenai	$18,000	2	n/a
Big Hole Watershed Committee Inc	$13,625	1	2%
Watershed Restoration Coalition for The	$13,422	2	6%
Palouse Land Trust Inc	$11,000	1	5%
Rocky Mountain Front Ranchlands Group	$10,275	1	n/a
Bitter Root Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Gallatin Valley Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Wood River Land Trust Co	$10,000	1	0%
Five Valleys Land Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Land Trust Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Inland Northwest Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust	$8,700	1	n/a
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation	$7,500	1	0%
The Trust for Public Land	$7,500	1	0%
Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc	$7,250	1	0%
Montana Association of Conservation Districts	$6,511	1	1%
Granite Conservation District	$5,564	1	n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Heart of the Rockies Initiative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 20.

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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.

Land Trust Alliance IncDC23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Land Trust Alliance Inc · Heart of the Rockies Foundation · Blackfoot Challenge Inc · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Vital Ground Foundation Inc · American Farmland Trust · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004

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 Heart of the Rockies Initiative

How much does Heart of the Rockies Initiative give?: Heart of the Rockies Initiative reported 4 itemized grants totaling $117,018, out of $172,110 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Heart of the Rockies Initiative fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Crime & Legal (12%), Education (4%).
Who are Heart of the Rockies Initiative's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Western Landowners Alliance ($238k), Utah State University ($105k), Madison Valley Ranchlands Group ($66k).
Does Heart of the Rockies Initiative fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heart of the Rockies Initiative?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land Trust Alliance Inc, Heart of the Rockies Foundation, Blackfoot Challenge Inc.
Where is Heart of the Rockies Initiative based?: Heart of the Rockies Initiative is based in MT.