North Dakota · Nonprofit
ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS
ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,433 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST ($23,433). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $358k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $431k
What Ecological Insights does
Mission
We believe in a healthier, happier world where grazers help us save critical grassland habitat, store soil carbon and support ranching communities in the northern great plains. Our mission is to lead efforts that how science can be applied to understand regenerative grazing concepts to benefit multiple stakeholders and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A.worked with turtle mountain agriculture department on developing research into industrial hemp as part of a community demonstration project. Led meeting on soil health and soil testing and agricultural production. B.set up a rangeland carbon experiment on a working ranch in mckenzie, nd for the purpose of quantifying how grazing management alters the carbon cycle. Organized 4 meetings and 2 field tours for producers, conservationists, and policy makers highlighting carbon as a commodity and the science necessary to better navigate carbon markets. Collected and presented data to the public indicating how rangelands serve as carbon sinks. C.collaborated with the university of minnesota on a watershed restoration project and ecosystem services model in pembina, nd sponsored by the usda nrcs. Set up model parameters, sampled soils, and evaluated watershed land use/land cover maps.
$136,979 spent$352,762 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $136,979.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $240k to $434k (+81%).
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 ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,059 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64k on record.
- Department of the Interior$64k
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 ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS
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 North Dakota
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
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS: 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 ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS?
- ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS (North Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,433 to it, the largest being NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST ($23,433). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,433 in grants to ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS?
- NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $23,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing