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Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc

Unite and support Montanas community-based conservation networks to promote healthy and productive watersheds.

$105k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Itemized grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$4,994
Largest grant, FY2024
$19,371
Organizations funded a year
1 to 30
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$26k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentFood & NutritionPublic 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$100k56%
FY202330$246k100%
FY20221$160k0%
FY20211$205kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$310kCommunity Improvement$9kFood & Nutrition$8kEmployment$7kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blackfoot Challenge Inc$49,83312%
Yaak Valley Forest Council$34,06625%
Park Conservation District$34,0092n/a
Bitterroot Water Partnership$23,62123%
Sun River Watershed$18,681212%
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc$16,13212%
Gallatin River Task Force$15,75821%
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group$12,400110%
Clearwater Resource Council$11,01927%
Prickly Pear Land Trust$7,95410%
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All grantees of Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blackfoot Challenge Inc$49,83312%
Yaak Valley Forest Council$34,06625%
Park Conservation District$34,0092n/a
Bitterroot Water Partnership$23,62123%
Sun River Watershed$18,681212%
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc$16,13212%
Gallatin River Task Force$15,75821%
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group$12,400110%
Clearwater Resource Council$11,01927%
Prickly Pear Land Trust$7,95410%
Stillwater Valley Watershed Council$7,50013%
Granite Conservation District$7,5001n/a
Winnett Aces Inc$7,50011%
Big Hole Watershed Committee Inc$7,50011%
Broadwater Conservation District$5,0001n/a
Centennial Valley Association Inc$4,50012%
Ruby Valley Conservation District$4,3001n/a
Jefferson River Watershed Council$4,0001n/a
Lolo Watershed Group$3,0001n/a
Montana Discovery Foundation$1,83612%
Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce$1,25010%
The Common Ground Project$1,25011%
Montana Forest Owners Association Inc$1,2501n/a
Gallatin Valley Land Trust$36510%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($431k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlackfoot Challenge Inc: $49,833 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYaak Valley Forest Council: $34,066 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBitterroot Water Partnership: $23,621 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSun River Watershed: $18,681 over 2y, 12% of budgetGallatin Watershed Council Inc: $16,132 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $15,758 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLower Clark Fork Watershed Group: $12,400 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetClearwater Resource Council: $11,019 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetPrickly Pear Land Trust: $7,954 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStillwater Valley Watershed Council: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWinnett Aces Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBig Hole Watershed Committee Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCentennial Valley Association Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMontana Discovery Foundation: $1,836 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMissoula Area Chamber of Commerce: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Common Ground Project: $1,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGallatin Valley Land Trust: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 17.

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.

The High Stakes FoundationMT22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc

How much does Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc give?
Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc reported 16 itemized grants totaling $100,402, out of $104,590 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Community Improvement (1%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Blackfoot Challenge Inc ($50k), Yaak Valley Forest Council ($34k), Park Conservation District ($34k).
Does Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The High Stakes Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Montana Trout Foundation.
Where is Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc based?
Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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