Montana · Nonprofit
PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC
PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC (Montana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,347,583 to it, the largest being THE VOLGENAU FOUNDATION ($615,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What People and Carnivores Inc does
Mission
To protect, reconnect and restore carnivore populations in the Northern Rockies by working with the region's people to prevent human-carnivore conflicts. We work with landowners and managers, Tribes, community groups, and other NGOs to keep people safe and bears, wolves, and cougars wild.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High divide - facilitated large carnivore range expansion and connectivity through implementation of conflict prevention tools such as fencing, guard dogs, scare devices, etc. To keep carnivores alive and moving. Also included bear safety events, field workshops, and development of technical manuals and films.
$285,388 spentof which $10,000 as grants52% of program spendingCrown of the continent - facilitated large carnivore range expansion and connectivity through implementation of conflict prevention tools such as fencing, guard dogs, scare devices, etc. To keep carnivores alive and moving. Also included bear safety events, field workshops, and development of technical manuals and films.
$183,476 spent33% of program spendingBear Smart Communities - Providing various resources to communities on their path to become "Bear Smart" including educational materials, funding, and help with navigating the process.
$80,534 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $549,398.
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 2020 to 2021, from $690k to $886k (+29%).
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.
97% of PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Alissa Anderson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $84k → $359k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES 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
PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 58% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 42% · 2023 28% — 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.
How long its funders stay
61% of PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES 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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC?
- PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC (Montana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,347,583 to it, the largest being THE VOLGENAU FOUNDATION ($615,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,347,583 in grants to PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES INC?
- THE VOLGENAU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $615,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE AND CARNIVORES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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