Montana · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC
MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,419 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($126,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $867k
- Net assets
- $0
What Mountain Journal Inc does
Mission
Mountain journal is a powerful voice for public interest journalism and is devoted to celebrating and defending public land heritage and the wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem. Our articles are free and on-line for all to access.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mountain journal is an independent on-line publication created to inform and expand public discourse on critical and timely conservation issues in the greater yellowstone ecosystem (gye) including impacts across the northern rockie. Serving as a journalistic watch dog and celebrant of the gye, mojo is published on the website mountainjournal.org, facebook, and instagram. We've delivered over 1,298 stories free of charge. Mojo's most read and commented on, and most shared pieces include articles on chronic wasting disease, impacts from climate change, water issues, wild fires, ethics of hunting, unplanned growth, impacts of increased outdoor recreation and topics around yellowstone national park. We have captured the attention of decision makers at the highest levels. They are paying attention to what happens in the gye and the media outlet they trust is mountain journal.
$363,700 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $363,700.
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.
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 $325k to $157k (−52%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Jessie Wiese
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $72k → $146k.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MOUNTAIN JOURNAL 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
MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 56% · 2021 58% · 2022 28% · 2023 24% — 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
18% of MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC
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
0%
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 MOUNTAIN JOURNAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC?
- MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC (Montana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,419 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($126,100). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $867,419 in grants to MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN JOURNAL 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 29 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