Montana · Nonprofit
AFFTA Fisheries Fund
AFFTA Fisheries Fund (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $520k
- Net assets
- $80k
What AFFTA Fisheries Fund does
Mission
Funding organizations and projects focused on fisheries conservation and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Facilitation of Tomorrow's Fish Campaign addressing the threats of climate change on recreational fishing, such as declining fish populations, by mobilizing anglers to advocate for policy changes.
$27,410 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,410.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $54k to $159k (+193%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of AFFTA Fisheries Fund’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Jim Bartschi
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $215k → $190k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $193k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Fly Fishing Trade Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AFFTA Fisheries Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of AFFTA Fisheries Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFFTA Fisheries Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 93% · 2022 87% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AFFTA Fisheries Fund draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFFTA Fisheries Fund's revenue fell 99% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AFFTA Fisheries Fund
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
24%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFFTA Fisheries Fund: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFFTA Fisheries Fund?
- AFFTA Fisheries Fund (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($450,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFFTA Fisheries Fund have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $520,000 in grants to AFFTA Fisheries Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFFTA Fisheries Fund?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFFTA Fisheries Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing