Colorado · Nonprofit
BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL
BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,734 to it, the largest being WSDC FOUNDATION ($225,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $135k
What Bear Trust International does
Mission
Bear Trust International works to conserve all eight species of the world's bears, other wildlife, and habitat. We believe that wild bears in their natural habitat are key indicators of ecosystem health. Their ability to sustain themselves is, therefore, critical to wildlife. Bear trust strives to reinforce ecosystem viability through habitat conservation and education projects that build on timely research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During fiscal year 2023-2024, Bear Trust International focused very deligently on our five main platforms, education, research, management, habitat, and policy initiatives. We once again offered free lesson plans to teachers across north america and worldwide. These lesson plans included the newest lesson plan a wolverines life offered in our student scientist series. We worked with the national science teachers association, montana fish wildlife and parks, wild sheep foundation, and numerous other learning and teaching outlets. All of the courses are offered online, self-paced, and free. We then provide passcodes to educators once we confirmed their credentials as professional educators.in terms of outreach, bear trust has been working on expanding social media presence. We have grown our facebook and instagram pages as well as consistantly updated our website. Bear Trust International has been focused on producing educational films. We have also been working hard to complete our bear book, a bear.in terms of management, bear trust continued its work with indian collaborators on a program to reduce human-sloth bear conflict in gujarat, india to save lives of both humans and sloth…
$132,347 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $132,347.
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 2020 to 2021, from $55k to $218k (+297%).
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.
90% of BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.
Board chair
Mike Evans
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $10k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL’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
BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 70% · 2022 70% · 2023 100% — 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 BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL: 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 BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL?
- BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,734 to it, the largest being WSDC FOUNDATION ($225,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $414,734 in grants to BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL?
- WSDC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 8 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