Montana · Nonprofit
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,632 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($24,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group does
Mission
The mission of the Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (LCFWG) is to facilitate collaboration among watershed stakeholders and to coordinate efforts to maintain, enhance, and restore the ecological integrity of tributaries to the lower Clark Fork River. Our work focuses primarily on in-stream and on-the-ground restoration projects that improve water quality and enhance habitat for Bull Trout or Westslope Cutthroat Trout. In 2024, the LCFWG maintained communication among project partners to coordinate continued efforts to improve the health of our watersheds. Major 2024 accomplishments across the watershed are described below: - Private Land Stewardship Program: The LCFWG continued the Private Land Stewardship Program, aimed at landowner outreach and engagement intended to increase on-the-ground projects on private lands. In 2024, LCFWG worked with the Natural Resource Conservation Service to develop revegetation projects on private lands in the Bull River drainage. Continued efforts were planned for 2025 in the Bull River drainage. One new landowner was engaged through NRCS, with potential revegetation work in 2025 or 2026. - Bull River: Continued ongoing efforts to revegetate areas…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$68,772 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,772.
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 2021 to 2022, from $88k to $47k (−46%).
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 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $13k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $332 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.
Against its field
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group has grown faster than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $903k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$504k
- Department of the Interior$399k
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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group
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.
Public support
54%
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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group: 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 Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group?
- Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,632 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ($24,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $52,632 in grants to Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group?
- NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group 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 5 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