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International Association for Bear Research and Management

To advance scientific understanding and global conservation of the world's 8 bear species.

$350k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$286k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$9,933
Largest grant, FY2025
$266,723
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$773k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations International Association for Bear Research and Management funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving4$286k75%
FY20241$750100%
FY20221$48k0%
FY20201$95k0%
FY20192$101kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$267kAnimals$263k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington State University$266,7231n/a
Wsu Bear Center$237,3703n/a
Centre for Wildlife Studies Inc$9,9331n/a
Zoological Society of Cincinnati$8,85010%
Wildlife Sos$5,74010%
Bear Care Group$1,0002n/a

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About International Association for Bear Research and Management

How much does International Association for Bear Research and Management give?
International Association for Bear Research and Management reported 4 itemized grants totaling $285,756, out of $349,774 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does International Association for Bear Research and Management fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Animals (50%).
Who are International Association for Bear Research and Management's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Washington State University ($267k), Wsu Bear Center ($237k), Centre for Wildlife Studies Inc ($10k).
Does International Association for Bear Research and Management fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is International Association for Bear Research and Management based?
International Association for Bear Research and Management 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 6 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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