Montana · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,221 to it, the largest being JOHN SHELDON BEVINS FOUNDATION ($149,021). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $768k
What International Association for Bear Research and Management does
Mission
To advance scientific understanding and global conservation of the world's 8 bear species.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education and evidence based science through peer-reviewed journal, international news letter, conferences, and website to conserve and advance the scientific understanding of the world's eight bear species.
$344,718 spent$136,295 earned by the program57% of program spendingOffer competitive grants to iba members for bear research, conservation, and management to help further understand the world's eight bear species.
$260,716 spentof which $349,774 as grants43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $605,434.
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.
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 $577k to $781k (+35%).
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: 2021 13% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $18k.
1 of 2 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT’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
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200 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.
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- John Sheldon Bevins Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT: 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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT?
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,221 to it, the largest being JOHN SHELDON BEVINS FOUNDATION ($149,021). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $149,221 in grants to INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT?
- JOHN SHELDON BEVINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $149,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BEAR RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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