Montana · Nonprofit
INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL
INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,916,539 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($5,400,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Intertribal Agriculture Council does
Mission
The Intertribal Agriculture Council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program services consist of promoting native american enterprises, expanding agriculture education, and promoting opportunities within agriculture. These services are accomplished through a number of avenues: holding annual and regional meetings, tradeshows and symposiums; maintaining and updating an informational website and meeting one-on-one with producers. Current member tribes number 61.
$11,649,048 spentof which $1,914,523 as grants$759,752 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,649,048.
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 2017 to 2018, from $818k to $9.0M (+1002%).
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: 2017 90% · 2018 98% · 2019 72% · 2020 67% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 78% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kari Jo Lawrence
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $120k → $1.3M.
10 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 58% · 2023 32% — 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
23% of INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$125.1M
- National Science Foundation$100k
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 INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE 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.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE 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 INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL?
- INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,916,539 to it, the largest being WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION ($5,400,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $13,916,539 in grants to INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE COUNCIL?
- WAVERLEY STREET FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERTRIBAL AGRICULTURE 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.
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 52 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