Montana · Nonprofit
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY (Montana) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,669,797 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($981,310). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Glacier National Park Conservancy does
Mission
The Glacier National Park Conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wildernessthe conservancy funds projects and programs that preserve glacier national park's wilderness character to provide an authentic, sustainable, and accessible wilderness experience for visitors to glacier national park.grants issued to preserve and protect the park's wilderness character providing and sustaining an accessible wilderness experience for visitors and for future generations. These projects include internships, education, scientific research and more.
$1,067,999 spentof which $743,474 as grants16% of program spendingWonderthe conservancy supports strategic education initiatives designed to engage current and future glacier national park stewards of all ages. In this context, education is viewed in a broad sense to include work being done through curriculum-based education, interpretation, environmental education, science education, and community engagement. Projects seek to educate and inspire visitors about conservation, preservation, stewardship, safety, and respect for the cultural and natural resources and wildlife in the park and surrounding areas. Grants are issued to educate and engage visitors. Initiatives encourage learning and stewardship via programs such as ranger-led field trips, teacher workshops, tribal partnership initiatives, native america speaks programs, conservation corps, dark sky programs and more. This includes direct support of our agency partners: grant-kohrs historic ranch and flathead national forest.
$4,672,493 spentof which $3,252,701 as grants70% of program spendingWildlifethe conservancy funds priority projects for glacier national park that preserve, monitor and promote biodiversity, connectivity, and healthy wildlife populations. Glacier national park is a thriving home to over 240 bird species and 65 species of native mammals. Its habitat extends well beyond glacier national park's borders, making the crown of the continent one of the most biologically intact ecosystems in north america. Grants support critical projects throughout the park that preserve, monitor and promote biodiversity, connectivity, healthy wildlife populations and more.
$934,499 spentof which $650,540 as grants14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,674,991.
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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $15M (+19%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Doug Mitchell
Executive director
Board chair
Joe Raudabaugh
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $388k → $1.1M.
19 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 20% · 2020 30% · 2021 18% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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
55% of GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: 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 GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY?
- GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY (Montana) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,669,797 to it, the largest being WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($981,310). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $6,669,797 in grants to GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY?
- WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $981,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY 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.
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 97 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