Montana · Nonprofit
FLATHEAD LAND TRUST
FLATHEAD LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,606,157 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($901,269). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Flathead Land Trust does
Mission
Flathead Land Trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water legacy through voluntary agreements with private land owners. Flt's primary program service is private land conservation through voluntary agreements with landowners (conservation easements); within that program service flt develops, negotiates, and accepts donated conservation easements. In addition with both private and federal funds, flt purchases conservation easements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation:a. In january, we partnered with charles and renate jaquette to place their 497-acre farm just east of kalispell under conservation easement. Containing some of the richest topsoil in the valley, the easement adds to a growing network of conserved farms in the highly productive creston area. Encompassing over a mile of egan slough, the property provides excellent bird habitat and is strategically located for both birds and wildlife at a landscape scale.b. In february, we completed a conservation easement with montana dnrc to permanently protect the 405-acre owen sowerwine property east of kalispell. This beloved block of school trust land, with its intact forested river bottom and riparian habitat, has been a community treasure enjoyed by the public for decades. C. In april, we partnered with luci yeats to permanently protect 76-acres of her family's agricultural land near the bad rock canyon wildlife management area east of columbia falls. The "heart rock ridge" conservation easement safeguards a vital wildlife corridor as well as scenic open space and a long legacy of working farmland.d. Also in april, a 122-acre ranch and wildlife haven in the mission valley, once…
$9,627,706 spent99% of program spendingEducation and outreach:our education and outreach programs were especially popular and reached many across the flathead valley. The bird education program helped to educate over 300 7th and 8th graders about birds and conservation from west valley, bigfork, evergreen as well as two eagle river school in the mission valley.
$37,322 spent0% of program spendingStewardship:monitored all 79 conservation easements (encompassing 15,162 acres) and one restricted covenant.
$22,138 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,687,166.
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 $1.4M to $2.2M (+54%).
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: 2018 36% · 2019 1% · 2020 34% · 2021 7% · 2022 9% · 2023 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FLATHEAD LAND TRUST’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. 2 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
Paul Travis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $76k → $660k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 FLATHEAD LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
FLATHEAD LAND TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 FLATHEAD LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 54% · 2019 45% · 2020 41% · 2021 50% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of FLATHEAD LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
FLATHEAD LAND TRUST draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FLATHEAD LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FLATHEAD LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.
- Department of the Interior$400k
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 FLATHEAD LAND TRUST
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAND TRUST?
- FLATHEAD LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,606,157 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($901,269). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLATHEAD LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,606,157 in grants to FLATHEAD LAND TRUST, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLATHEAD LAND TRUST?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $901,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLATHEAD LAND TRUST 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 34 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