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LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC

LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC (Idaho) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,018 to it, the largest being IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($38,018). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$19k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$58k
Net assets
$347
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Lava Lake Institute for Science and Conservation Inc does

Programs

  1. Conservation: participate in and conduct conservation planning and land protection efforts within the region; refine, update and maintain ecological gis mapping database for conservation purposes and for the use of cooperating researchers and scientists; participate in the pioneers alliance; collaborated with local conservation organizations to accomplish conservation within the pioneer mountains and craters of the moon landscape.

    $0 spent

  2. Lava lake injured veterans equine program (live): the live program was developed in consultation with recreational therapists from the veterans administration offices in palo alto,california and boise, idaho. Participants must complete an equine therapy program to acquire basic horsemanship skills prior to coming to the ranch. Where appropriate and indicated therapeutically, a spouse or other family member may accompany a veteran

    $20,000 spent

  3. Wood river wolf project: the wood river wolf project is a collaborative of conservation organizations, ranching operations, and county, state and federal agencies working together to use proactive, nonlethal deterrents to minimize livestock and wolf conflicts. Since 2008, the wood river wolf project has been helping blaine county ranchers implement nonlethal strategies to successfully reduce livestock losses and protect native wildlife.

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($89k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2018 Revenue 60 ($63k) Expenses 62 ($55k) Net assets 192 ($16k)2019 Revenue 39 ($40k) Expenses 63 ($56k) Net assets 3 ($270)2020 Revenue 16 ($16k) Expenses 21 ($19k) Net assets -28 ($-2385)2021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($314) Net assets -43 ($-3662)2022 Revenue 0 ($300) Expenses 5 ($5k) Net assets -96 ($-8123)2023 Revenue 32 ($33k) Expenses 26 ($23k) Net assets 22 ($2k)2024 Revenue 18 ($19k) Expenses 23 ($21k) Net assets 4 ($347)
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Revenue (18)Expenses (23)Net assets (4)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $32k to $10k (−69%).

$22k
$30k
$32k
$10k
$8k
$3k
$13k
$12k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $20k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC’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

LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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 LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC.

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 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

100% of LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC's revenue fell 82% between 2017 and 2024.

Months of reserve6.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC?
LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC (Idaho) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,018 to it, the largest being IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($38,018). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $58,018 in grants to LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC?
IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,018 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAVA LAKE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 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