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STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY

STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$110k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$312k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Stewards of the Swan Valley does

Mission

Our mission is to reflect local community values while facilitating efforts that sustain, enhance, conserve, and protect the natural and cultural resources and rural lifestyle of the swan valley for present and future generations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We collect information about planned developments, activities or policies of local or state/federal entities, assess the impacts of these on the culture, lifestyle and environment of the community. We communicate this impact to the community and other stakeholders, and recommend action to further the aims of our stakeholders.

    $14,413 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,413.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($224k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($216k)2024 Revenue 49 ($110k) Expenses 174 ($14k) Net assets 144 ($312k)
20232024
Revenue (49)Expenses (174)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

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 $216k to $312k (+44%).

$216k
$312k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$216k
’23
$96k
’24
260
months of
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.

20232024
Listed55
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY’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.

Where its funders are

STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin87% · top quartile
Months of reserve260.0mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY: 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 STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY?
STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY.
Who is the largest funder of STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY?
THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEWARDS OF THE SWAN VALLEY 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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