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WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED

WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,079 to it, the largest being TROUT UNLIMITED INC ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$67k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What West Slope Chapter Trout Unlimited does

Mission

To produce publications for over 400 members; conduct educational seminars for children & adults; perform habitat projects for stream restoration for trout; promote public awareness of harmful effect of pesticides & fertilizers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Entered into a cost sharing agreement with montana department of fish wildlife & parks and the montana state council of trout unlimited to provide financial assistance and volunteer labor for several habitat projects to restore various watersheds and streams located in western montana.

    $0 spent
  2. Sponsored and provided tuition cost for two participants to attend the kids fly fishing camp located at camp wontanopa on georgetown lake. This involves six days of educations taught by fishing guides and wildlife biologists.

    $0 spent
  3. Cost sharing agreement with the watershed education network to provide in-school education classes for students grade k thru 12 that are attending schools located in missoula county.

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($122k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($100k)2018 Revenue 114 ($139k) Expenses 186 ($156k) Net assets 83 ($83k)2019 Revenue 103 ($125k) Expenses 98 ($82k) Net assets 126 ($126k)2020 Revenue 115 ($140k) Expenses 147 ($123k) Net assets 143 ($143k)2021 Revenue 63 ($77k) Expenses 123 ($103k) Net assets 117 ($118k)2023 Revenue 205 ($249k) Expenses 100 ($83k) Net assets 191 ($192k)2024 Revenue 101 ($122k) Expenses 157 ($131k) Net assets 182 ($183k)2025 Revenue 4 ($5k) Expenses 144 ($121k) Net assets 67 ($67k)
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Revenue (4)Expenses (144)Net assets (67)

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 $183k to $67k (−63%).

$100k
$83k
$129k
$148k
$118k
$192k
$183k
$67k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
−$17k
’18
$43k
’19
$17k
’20
−$26k
’21
$166k
’23
−$9k
’24
−$116k
’25
4.9
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.

202320242025
Listed12125
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·27
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $57.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED’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

WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED.

50%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 86% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 3 states in all.

OH
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED

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

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
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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Questions and answers

Who funds WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED?
WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED (Montana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,079 to it, the largest being TROUT UNLIMITED INC ($6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $12,079 in grants to WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED?
TROUT UNLIMITED INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEST SLOPE CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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