Montana · Nonprofit
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,703,867 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($1,134,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Montana Wilderness Association does
Mission
Uniting and mobilizing communities to keep montana wild.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educate, inspire, and activate people to advance conservation.
$931,740 spentof which $3,075 as grants35% of program spendingAdvance public land policies that support resilient communities.
$704,385 spentof which $1,882 as grants26% of program spendingLeave a legacy of wild and connected public lands.
$1,028,930 spentof which $14,830 as grants39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,665,055.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $5.7M (+13%).
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 7% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
John Todd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.2M.
19 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
41% 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 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 35% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — 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
54% of MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION draws 94% 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. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $266k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$266k
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 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
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
82%
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 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: 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 MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (Montana) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,703,867 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ($1,134,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $10,703,867 in grants to MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,134,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing