Wyoming · Nonprofit
SNAKE RIVER FUND
SNAKE RIVER FUND (Wyoming) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,927 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($710,315). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $840k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Snake River Fund does
Mission
The Snake River Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting stewardship of and recreational access to the snake river watershed in wyoming, with an emphasis on partnerships, education and public outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public access projects: the Snake River Fund (srf) provides monies to improve public access on the upper snake river watershed. We clear and improve boat ramps. We leverage monies to help fund infrastructure projects at public access points managed by local and federal agencies. In 2025, the recreational easement mapping project was completed. This mapping delinates easements on private property in the snake river corridor. This project was completed in partnership with the cfjh and teton county parks and recreation.
$283,381 spentof which $15,042 as grants65% of program spendingWatershed/education: the upper snake river watershed is pristine, but sees heavy use on many reaches. The srf participates in opportunities to formalize protective measures, participate in restoration projects and educate and inform the general public regarding current issues, ecology, use patterns, and infrastructure. Srf collaborates with other ngos & land mgmt agencies to provide educational opportunities for visitors and locals each year. Srf works with partners to get underserved members of our community from all walks of life on to the water to promote the concept of outreach, education, watershed management and recreational opportunities for all.
$153,028 spent35% of program spendingPublic land transfers: the Snake River Fund is collaborating with teton co and others in the transfer process of more than 1000 acres of riparian habitat from the blm to teton county along the snake river corridor from moose to south park. The fund will ensure that the parcels remain in public ownership for use as public access, recreation, wildlife habitat and open space. We are playing a key role in the development of facilities and adoption of county mgmt of the wilson to s. Park reach of the river.
$2,683 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,092.
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 2023 to 2024, from $856k to $2.4M (+176%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of SNAKE RIVER FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Chief executive
Orion Hatch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $274k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SNAKE RIVER FUND’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
SNAKE RIVER FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% 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
50% 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 SNAKE RIVER FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 98% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 74% · 2022 60% · 2023 44% — 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
30% of SNAKE RIVER FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
SNAKE RIVER FUND draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $773k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SNAKE RIVER FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SNAKE RIVER FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10k
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 SNAKE RIVER FUND
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 Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 SNAKE RIVER FUND: 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 SNAKE RIVER FUND?
- SNAKE RIVER FUND (Wyoming) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,927 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($710,315). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SNAKE RIVER FUND have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,579,927 in grants to SNAKE RIVER FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SNAKE RIVER FUND?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $710,315 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SNAKE RIVER FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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