Montana · Nonprofit
THE SALMONFLY PROJECT
THE SALMONFLY PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $429k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $263k
What The Salmonfly Project does
Mission
In 2025, The Salmonfly Project advanced its mission to conserve aquatic insects and the ecosystems they support through expanded monitoring, research, and public engagement across the western unted states. We completed annual aquatic insect and habitat monitoring in seven priority watersheds, including rock creek, gallatin river, madison river, big wood river, teton river, upper snake river and the ogden river. These efforts provide critical, standardized datasets to track the status and long-term trends of aquatic insect populations in ecologically and recreationally important fisheries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We made significant progress in analyzing long-term population trends of the giant salmonfly (pteronarcys californica) in montana, with preliminary findings indicating substantial declines over the past several decades. In parallel, we advanced trans-state analyses regarding the causes of salmonfly declines in utah and colorado. Preliminary results suggest declines are driven by changes in temperature, oxygen, and flow. We also advanced our long-term, river-wide analysis of aquatic insect community trends on the madison river and refined field and laboratory methodologies for large-river insect monitoring through focused work on the deshutes river. These efforts help estalish new knowledge to better understand the scope, severity, and causes of insect declines and best practices for consistent, management-relevant monitoring across regions.
$58,844 spent33% of program spendingCommunity engagement remained central to our work. Through volunteer training programs, we engaged and trained more than 50 volunteers in aquatic insect sampling methods, expanding regional capacity for longterm monitoring. We also delivered angler education through entomology clinics, teaching appoximately 45 anglers how to identify aquatic insects and match fishing strategies to natural hatches, strengthening the connection between conservation and recreation.
$58,844 spent33% of program spendingOur work continues to position aquatic insects as both indicators of ecosystem health and critical drivers of fisheries productivity. By building partnerships, generating actionable data, and fostering public stewardship, the salmonfly poject is helping to establish a new model for insect-focused conservation and monitoring in the western united states.
$58,843 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,531.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $79k to $272k (+243%).
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: 2024 38% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE SALMONFLY PROJECT’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. 0 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 THE SALMONFLY PROJECT’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
THE SALMONFLY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
67% 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 THE SALMONFLY PROJECT.
“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
67% of THE SALMONFLY PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Montana, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
THE SALMONFLY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE SALMONFLY PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$31k
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 THE SALMONFLY PROJECT
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE SALMONFLY PROJECT: 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 THE SALMONFLY PROJECT?
- THE SALMONFLY PROJECT (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SALMONFLY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to THE SALMONFLY PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SALMONFLY PROJECT?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SALMONFLY PROJECT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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