Montana · Nonprofit
Shepherds of Wildlife Society
Shepherds of Wildlife Society (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,730 to it, the largest being Kamps Family Foundation ($162,660). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $453k
- Net assets
- $228k
What Shepherds of Wildlife Society does
Mission
Tell the Story of Wildlife Conservation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Finished Production and Started Screening/Showing The Last Keeper Film
$292,600 spent63% of program spendingContinue Production and Start Marketing The Real Yellowstone Film
$147,165 spent31% of program spendingProduced Black American Sportsman Film
$28,287 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,052.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $25k to $194k (+687%).
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.
100% of Shepherds of Wildlife Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Stephen Duringer
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16 → $88k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Shepherds of Wildlife Society’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
Shepherds of Wildlife Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Shepherds of Wildlife Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 86% — 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
Shepherds of Wildlife Society draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Shepherds of Wildlife Society has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Shepherds of Wildlife Society
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Shepherds of Wildlife Society: 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 Shepherds of Wildlife Society?
- Shepherds of Wildlife Society (Montana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,730 to it, the largest being Kamps Family Foundation ($162,660). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shepherds of Wildlife Society have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $452,730 in grants to Shepherds of Wildlife Society, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shepherds of Wildlife Society?
- Kamps Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $162,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shepherds of Wildlife Society 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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