Montana · Nonprofit
BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC
BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,248 to it, the largest being MONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC ($138,848). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $241k
What Bitter Root Resource Conservation & Development Area Inc does
Mission
The mission of the brrc&d is to promote conscientious development of the area's natural and human resources while maintaining or improving the quality of those resources and the quality of life primarily in mineral, missoula and ravalli counties, mt
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Bitter root rc&d routinely adds new programs to its objectives and closes other programs as they become independent or are completed.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Land management projects land management projects fall under two different goals. The first goal is to assist the us forest service, montana department of natural resources and county emergency services, local fire departments and private land owners in a three county area in reducing the potential damage from wildfires to primarily forest lands and personal property and reduce the risk to fire fighters. The second goal is to encourage the substitution of locally available energy resources, including wood biomass boiler systems to reduce fossil fuel dependence.
$985,407 spent$419 earned by the program91% of program spendingCommunity development projects community development projects fall under two different goals. The first goal is to work with more than 10 governments, non-governmental entities, nonprofit groups and individuals to develop and implement efforts to enhance our communities and quality of life for our residents. The second goal is to work with rc&d sponsors and other nonprofits to provide wholesome foods, medical assistance, recreation, transportation and education for all of our residents, especially for those with low and moderate incomes and physical or mental disabilities.
$97,046 spent$21,754 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,082,453.
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 $304k to $207k (−32%).
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: 2017 32% · 2018 42% · 2019 39% · 2020 40% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% · 2024 55% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA 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 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $71.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA 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
BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 69% · 2019 73% · 2020 80% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 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
67% of BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC'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
88% of BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183 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
BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC?
- BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,248 to it, the largest being MONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC ($138,848). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $329,248 in grants to BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA INC?
- MONTANA HOMEOWNERSHIP NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $138,848 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BITTER ROOT RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT AREA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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