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NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL

NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being PERKINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$111k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$40k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Native Ecosystems Council does

Mission

Promote wildlife habitat

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Submitted scoping comments, draft ea comments, and objections on 41 forest service projects, 4 blm projects, and 2 montana fish wildlife and parks projects.

    $53,670 spent
    44% of program spending

  2. Costs for legal challenges and filings to protect wildlife habitat on public lands.

    $61,120 spent
    50% of program spending

  3. Collaboration with 7 other nonprofits via phone conferences to coordiante on project comments and legal challenges.

    $6,630 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,420.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2023 Revenue 130 ($72k) Expenses 171 ($63k) Net assets 123 ($51k)2024 Revenue 150 ($83k) Expenses 231 ($85k) Net assets 119 ($50k)2025 Revenue 201 ($111k) Expenses 332 ($121k) Net assets 95 ($40k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (201)Expenses (332)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $50k to $40k (−20%).

$42k
$51k
$50k
$40k
2022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’22
$10k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$10k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $25k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
2
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL’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

NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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

75%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 60% — 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.

Where its funders are

NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.

OH
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL

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

Conservation Congress74%Foundation for North American Wild Sheep Montana Chapter74%Alliance for the Wild Rockies Inc73%Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc73%Watershed Restoration Coalition for The72%Gallatin Wildlife Association71%Montana Wildlife Federation71%Trap Free Montana Inc71%

Nationally

Conservation Congress74%Foundation for North American Wild Sheep Montana Chapter74%League of Wilderness Defenders74%Colorado Nature League73%Friends of Plumas Wilderness73%Western Environmental Law Center73%Alliance for the Wild Rockies Inc73%Montana Watershed Coordination Council Inc73%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL?
NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being PERKINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL?
PERKINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS COUNCIL 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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