Montana · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,249 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($359,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $365k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $918k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Alliance for the Wild Rockies Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to secure the ecological integrity of the wild rockies bioregion through citizen empowerment and the application of conservation biology, sustainable economic models and environmental law.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ecosystem defense. Our mission is to secure the ecological integrity of the wild rockies bioregion through citizen empowerment and the application of conservation biology, sustainable economic models and environmental law. Our public lands belong to all of us, and it is our duty to protect the immeasurable value of old-growth forests, snow-capped mountains, and freshwater rivers and lakes for many generations to come. To fulfill this mission we comment and submit comments mostly on projects on federal lands throughout the northern rockies and a few projects on state lands in montana. If the government ignores our comments, we often hire attorneys to file lawsuits against the united states forest service, the fish and wildlife service, and the bureau of land management. We also wrote a bill before congress, the northern rockies ecosystem protection act, h.r. 2420 in the house and s. 1198 in the senate.
$225,155 spent56% of program spendingOutreach. The alliance talks to the press on an almost daily basis to educate the public about our efforts. We have been quoted in media throughout the united states and occasionally in europe. We also regularly write columns for national publications like counterpunch, but columns by the alliance for the wild rockies executive director have also appeared in the ny times and the washington post. Our columns are also printed frequently in local newspapers in the northern rockies. We do this to educate the public about our efforts to protect habitat for native species in the northern rockies.
$170,923 spent42% of program spendingMember service activities. The alliance for the wild rockies has members who contribute to the alliance for the wild rockies to further our mission. To keep our members informed, we have a website, facebook page, and a twitter account. We regularly mail or email our members to update them about our activities and to remain them to check our social media accounts. We also meet with or talk to our members on a regular basis to educate them or ask them to support our efforts through their own comments.
$6,430 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $402,508.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $336k to $114k (−66%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michael Garrity
Executive director/treasur
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $51k → $295k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC’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
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $331k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC
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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC?
- ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $918,249 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($359,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $918,249 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $359,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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