Montana · Nonprofit
MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP
MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,937 to it, the largest being HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE ($65,512). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $303k
What Madison Valley Ranchlands Group does
Mission
To help keep ranches in the madison valley viable and promote good stewardship, promote open space, and healthy way of life that has western values and clean water and wildlife habitate and healthy ranchlands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH - MVRG partners in the Winter RoundTable Series which brings presenters together with local ranchers and others of the public to share ideas relevant to current challenges and new concepts for rancher profitability and land use health. We were a partner in the Wildlife Series Summer Presentations. MVRG is active in safety trainings for people working livestock, interacting with carnivores, and operating farm machinery. Active in the CRC (Conflict Reduction Consortium), a western states group working to find solutions to pressures on working lands. Carcass Management Technical Advisory Committee member for NRCS and FSA program innovation and implementation protocols. Virtual presenter at several on-line meetings regarding conflict prevention strategies and current challenges facing ranchers and open space fragmentation.
$56,939 spent34% of program spendingCARCASS COMPOST SITE - The site is managed by the Bar MZ Ranch and the MVRG Project Director. There are substantial costs associated with placing carcasses in the bunkers, monitoring the carcass decomposition process and keeping the electric fenced enclosure maintained, turning the piles, and materials for mixing to make the compost. DEQ training session for proper management are currently on-line and help with maintain the site accreditation.
$34,163 spent20% of program spendingCARCASS REMOVAL - MVRG's carcass removal program is operated on the east side of Madison County covering over 150 square miles and currently servicing 40+ landowners (ranchers and small acreage livestock owners). It is operated by the MVRG Project Director with MVRG's dump trailer and her pickup. The carcasses once removed are brought to the carcass compost site. Removing carcasses from ranches and small acreages reduces predator and scavenger conflicts with ranchers and the general public.
$22,776 spent13% of program spendingWEED BIO CONTROL - The Madison County Biocontrol project continues to be one of the most successful in the state. In 2024, the crew collected and released over 68,050 specialized insects, surveyed and mapped dozens of properties and spoke with many landowners. The project also is an important partner in the statewide study of a new biocontrol for Canada thistle. In 2024, we revisited and monitored 8 sites and re-inoculated 10 sites. Developed/renewed biological control efforts with USFS, assisted in releasing Macinus janthinus, Yellow toadflax insects with Ennis personnel. Also worked with Bozeman USFS staff to survey and assess site near Quake Lake and then collected and released 22 releases of Cyphocleonus achates to combat Spotted knapweed.
$19,293 spent11% of program spendingCO-OPERATIVE WEED CONTROL PROJECTS - We partnered with the Madison County Weed Board on a special project in Meadow Creek watershed near McAllister. The Weed Committee helped facilitate this project by performing extensive outreach to landowners, communicating with commercial applicators, surveying, and mapping. Our crew also participated in the annual Bear Trap Spray Day, a large cooperative effort that brings together public land managers and the public.
$19,293 spent11% of program spendingWEED OUTREACH AND EDUCATION - In 2024, the Committee worked to bring noxious weed awareness to the community by doing the following: Developed, updated and ordered printing of new noxious weed education activity/materials to be used with groups of youth or adults. Completed noxious weed identification boards as well as biocontrol boards. These have already been used by local elementary school as part of their noxious weed science curriculum. Continued development of placemat education campaign materials. Provided monthly articles to the Madisonian newspaper via Natural Resource News and produced and distributed our scenic and educational calendar.
$11,025 spent7% of program spendingNOXIOUS WEED COORDINATION - The MVRG Weed Committee works closely and coordinates with professionals across the state (and often throughout the West). The Project Coordinator is the SW MT Biocontrol Representative, participates in statewide biological control steering committee meetings and the SW Area of the MT Weed Control Association's Council. We also have agreements with both the Bureau of Land Management and the MT Department of Transportation. The Committee also spends much time working with other public and private land managers to address noxious weed issues in the region.
$5,512 spent3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $169,001.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $437k to $374k (−14%).
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 35% · 2022 36% · 2024 55% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
127% of MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $34k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP’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
MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 53% · 2019 31% · 2020 77% · 2021 66% · 2022 36% · 2023 70% — 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
50% of MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
63% of MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS 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. $9k 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
MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $193k on record.
- Department of the Interior$193k
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 MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS 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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP?
- MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP (Montana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $199,937 to it, the largest being HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE ($65,512). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $199,937 in grants to MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP?
- HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $65,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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