Montana · Nonprofit
CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL
CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,903 to it, the largest being CADEAU FOUNDATION ($113,022). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Clearwater Resource Council does
Mission
To engage the community and facilitate efforts that will enhance, sustain, conserve and protect the natural resources and rural lifestyle of the Clearwater Watershed for present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Forest Restoration and Wildfire safety - The Clearwater Valley contains thousands of acres of forests, much of it public lands. The wildland-urban interface surrounding the community of Seeley Lake places it at risk of wildfire from all directions. CRC's fuel mitigation program is designed to assist private landowners with treating hazardous fuels, thus reducing the fire risk to homes/properties. CRC's Director of Terrestrial Programs responds to landowner requests for property evaluation and if qualified, assists in acquiring cost-share grants from public funds to achieve fuel and fire-risk reduction. In addition, CRC leads collaborative efforts across state and federal agencies to conduct cross-boundary efforts for fuel mitigation and forest restoration activities
$60,861 spentof which $55,884 as grants65% of program spendingWater Quality - Over 80% of the public identify maintaining water quality of lakes and streams as a high priority. We live in one of the few areas where water is still cold and pure. CRC works to monitor and protect that resource and have instituted various projects conducted by staff and volunteers to analyze lake and stream water quality and monitor lakes for invasive species.
$31,540 spentof which $27,280 as grants34% of program spendingEducation and Outreach-People are a critical aspect of environmental work. People also provide manpower, funds, and ideas to ensure programs are effective and long lasting. In order to make sure community members are aware of the benefits and conservation needs of the natural resources in our watershed, we have instituted a number of demonstration projects, community programs, and public outreach activities.
$1,365 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $57k to $100k (+76%).
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: 2022 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $7k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL’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
CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 74% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
17% of CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL's revenue fell 51% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $159k on record.
- Department of the Interior$100k
- Department of Agriculture$59k
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 CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL: 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 CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL?
- CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,903 to it, the largest being CADEAU FOUNDATION ($113,022). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $270,903 in grants to CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL?
- CADEAU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $113,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEARWATER RESOURCE COUNCIL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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