Montana · Nonprofit
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Greater Montana Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Humanities Montanashared fundersportfolio match
- Montana History Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Missouri River Open Lands Preservation 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
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Greater Montana Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanashared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMT · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trustshared funderslocalMT · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rapp Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerry Metcalf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana Watershed Coordination Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maki Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bep Earthwise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park County Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc?
- Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,000 in grants to Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc?
- Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Missouri River Open Lands Preservation Inc 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing