Montana · Nonprofit
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,591,431 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($1,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- C Stone Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area Inclocal
- American Farmland Trustportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 50% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST’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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $107k → $421k.
14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
38% 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 PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 64% · 2023 29% — 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
57% of PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
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. Your 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- C Stone Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Lewis and Clark Area InclocalMT · funds 25 organizations near you
- American Farmland Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heart of the Rockies Initiativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwell Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas O Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Driggers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wall Family-Power Townsend FoundationlocalMT · funds 18 organizations near you
- Montana Shares InclocalMT · funds 8 organizations near you
- Hauser Lake HomelocalMT · funds 7 organizations near you
- Chub and Mary D Munger FoundationlocalMT · funds 7 organizations near you
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.
Government funding PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.5M on record.
- Department of Defense$13.3M
- Department of Agriculture$255k
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 PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST
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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST: 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 PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST?
- PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,591,431 to it, the largest being The Kendeda Fund ($1,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $5,591,431 in grants to PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST?
- The Kendeda Fund is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47funders 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