Montana · Nonprofit
STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL
STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,590 to it, the largest being ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC ($55,390). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $602k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $364k
What Stillwater Valley Watershed Council does
Mission
Stillwater Valley Watershed Council SVWC will provide an open forum in which all interested parties may work in a collaborative effort to preservie the integrity of the river, the land, an the beauty of our valley. We will endeavor to bring together public, private and government resources, funding and grants to achieve our goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
HAZARDOUS FUELS PROGRAM This program provides homeowner with cost-share assistance for fuels reduction projects, prevention and mitigation materials regarding wildfire. Tallies for 2024 Completed hazardous fuel mitigation projects on 11 properties, encompassing over 8,000 acres. Improved the wildfire resiliency on 450 acres through prescriptive tree thinning practices. Awarded cost-share directly to 11 participants in the amount of 208,012 and paid contractors directly on behalf of landowners 153,067. Hosted the inaugural Home Hardening Workshop with FireSafe Stillwater affiliates 50 attendees.
$379,148 spentof which $361,079 as grants71% of program spendingWILDLIFE HABITAT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM WHIP GRANT. This is a 7-year project secured in 2019 and the mission encompasses treatment and monitoring of noxious weeds with Custer-Gallatin National Forest, preventing further spread of noxious weed throughout the Stillwater watershed. This project will enhance cooperative efforts of the US Forest Service USFS along with adjacent small and large tract landowners. Why is a non-profit group assisting the USFS in their noxious weed control efforts The budget line item for noxious weed control for the Custer-Gallatin National Forest has been significantly reduced in recent years. This grant pays 100 of costs of application on USFS land. Tallies for 2024 Treated 497 acres on USFS grazing allotments and heavily traveled corridors leading into recreational areas, paid commercial applicators 59,172 in 2024 and a total of over 172,345 to date.
$60,379 spentof which $59,172 as grants11% of program spendingCOOPERATIVE WEED CONTROL PROGRAMS SMALL AND LARGE ACREAGE, integrated, locally led approaches to noxious weed management enabling SVWC to collaborate with multiple agencies and hundreds of local landowners. Programs include SVWCs SMALL ACREAGE Cooperative Weed Control Program has treated weeds from Nye to Columbus Montana. This program is intended for landowners with LESS than 20 acres. Tallies for 2024 Enrolled 100 participants, including 1800 acres, to treat noxious weeds on 211 acres and provided cost-share to 8 participants in the amount of 2,880. SVWC used 3 commercial applicators and paid them 34,724. SVWC Large Acreage Noxious Weed Control Program targets landowners with MORE than 20 acres located on or adjacent to elk habitat. SVWC received another 20,000 from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation RMEF for 2023-2024. RMEF has contributed 159,000 over the past 14 years to this program. Tallies for 2024 Provided cost-share to 12 participants, representing 14,200 acres, to treat 400 acres via areal and ground application and provided cost-share in the amount of 9,815.
$60,271 spentof which $12,695 as grants$38,055 earned by the program11% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 24,349, Grants and allocations 21,540, Revenue 0 RIVER ASSESSMENT TRIAGE TEAM RATT. The 2022 flooding of the Stillwater and East Rosebud River was on a scale never seen before. RATT was modeled after the concept used as a response to the disaster along the Musselshell River near Roundup, MT. Tallies for 2024 RATT received a grant of 33,500 from Stillwater Conservation District to pay for debris removal. RATT spearheaded post-flood debris removal efforts on the Stillwater River, collecting 10 dump truck loads of non-native debris from 12 sties along riverbanks and islands from Nye to Columbus. One contractor was paid 16,040 for debris removal and two flood relief grants were awarded for head gate stabilization project 5,500. Program Service Expenses 8,245, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 STILLWATER-ROSEBUD WATER QUALITY INITIATIVE SRWQI was new in Fall of 2020. SRWQI is aimed at continuing a watershed assessment project, monitoring the health of streams and developing geographic information system GIS mapping capability in the watershed. The SRWQI completed the fourth year of collecting baseline water samples at nine sites on four tributaries…
$32,594 spentof which $21,540 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,392.
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 2019 to 2020, from $111k to $266k (+141%).
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 31% · 2021 54% · 2022 62% · 2023 28% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Timothy Schaff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL’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
STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 86% · 2020 78% · 2021 73% · 2022 80% · 2023 50% — 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
84% of STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL 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 STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL (Montana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,590 to it, the largest being ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC ($55,390). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $76,590 in grants to STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL?
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STILLWATER VALLEY WATERSHED COUNCIL 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 5 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