Montana · Public charity
Wild Sheep Foundation
Wsf enhances wild sheep populations, promotes scientific wildlife management, and educates the public and youth on sustainable use and the conservation benefits of hunting while promoting the interests of the hunter.
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $9.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,011,824
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Wild Sheep Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754k went to new ones.
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 62 | $9.0M | 58% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $8.4M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $5.3M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $4.3M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $4.2M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $3.1M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $3.5M | 54% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $3.4M | 67% |
96% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Animals$42MReligion$937kEnvironment$185kEducation$75kArts & Culture$55kYouth Development$28kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2025.
| STATE FISH & GAME PROGRAM FUNDING | $6,011,824 |
| Individual grant recipient | $357,900 |
| WILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION | $324,825 |
| LEADING EDGE AVIATION LLC | $162,867 |
| HELI SOURCE LTD | $118,753 |
| TOWN OF VAIL | $117,924 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GIA 2425-55 | $98,556 |
| Individual grant recipient | $82,550 |
| CONKLIN FOUNDATION | $76,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $73,750 |
| TELONICS INC | $72,377 |
| GIA 2425-64 | $71,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $68,605 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES RESTORATION LLC | $58,250 |
About Wild Sheep Foundation
- How much does Wild Sheep Foundation give?
- Wild Sheep Foundation reported 62 itemized grants totaling $8,957,260, out of $10,211,928 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wild Sheep Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (96%), Religion (2%), Environment (0%).
- Does Wild Sheep Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Wild Sheep Foundation based?
- Wild Sheep Foundation is based in MT.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home