Montana · Nonprofit
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 48 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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Prickly Pear Land Trust does
Mission
To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation and agricultural heritage of west-central montana through conservation, now and for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation land and easement acquisition, ecological restoration, & monitoring:pplt acquires conservation easements or fee land to permanently protect conservation and/or recreational values of specific land parcels. In, 2024, pplt completed one fee title acquisition of conservation land and two conservation easements on private land totaling 7,739-acres in lewis and clark, broadwater and meagher counties. Pplt also orchestrates ecological restoration efforts on key public and private lands in conjunction with private landowners, public land management agencies and other conservation groups. In 2024, pplt continued restoration activities on approximately 700 acres of land in lewis and clark county.
$5,469,389 spentof which $25,134 as grants$73,013 earned by the program92% of program spendingLand management program: pplt's land management program maintains and restores fee-owned properties for the benefit of wildlife habitat, resilient landscape, and recreation. Currently, pplt owns and manages 2,239 acres of land in lewis and clark county.
$243,191 spent4% of program spendingTrails and parks program - plan development, construction and maintenance:the grove park was repaired after spring floods. Trail building at prickly pear park was substantially completed and was prepared for a 2025 opening. Park and trail maintenance continued in helena's south hills and at tenmile creek park. Over 1,000 hours of contract and volunteer hours were recorded in construction and maintenance activities.
$216,312 spent$99,317 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,928,892.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.1M to $12M (+36%).
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
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
Mary Hollow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $107k → $421k.
15 of 48 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 48 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; 65% 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 85% 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. $1.3M 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
PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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
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
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.
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST?
- PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST (Montana) receives grants from 48 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 48 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 48 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