Montana · Nonprofit
YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER
YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER (Montana) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,736 to it, the largest being Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation ($261,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter does
Mission
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter is dedicated to strengthening the human-animal bond by providing compassionate and high-quality care, education, and resources to the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter (yvas) is the largest-volume shelter in montana, intaking over 5,000 animals annually. Yvas maintains contracts with the city of billings, yellowstone county sheriff's department, and laurel police department to provide care for lost & transitioning animals in the community. Yvas's main goals are to quickly reunite lost pets with their families while finding new, loving homes for any unclaimed or surrendered pets. All of the shelter's animals are fully vetted prior to adoption, receiving their age-appropriate vaccinations, microchips, and are spayed/neutered. Animals who are underage, sick, or injured enter yvas's foster program where they can recuperate before being medically cleared for adoption. Not only does yvas help to facilitate adoptions of homeless animals and reunite lost pets with their owners, but they've also expanded many of their public services. From obedience classes to low-cost veterinary services for owned animals, a free pet food & supply pantry, to summer camps for children - it is yvas's vision to build a community where every animal is cared for. Yvas placed more than 95 percent of the animals entrusted to their care,…
$1,347,313 spent$433,512 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,347,313.
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 $1.8M to $4.1M (+130%).
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: 2022 28% · 2023 14% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Triniti Halverson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $3k → $258k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Johnson Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER raised.
From the IRS filings of YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER’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
YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 38% · 2019 43% · 2020 24% · 2021 43% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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
83% of YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
68% of YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER?
- YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER (Montana) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,736 to it, the largest being Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation ($261,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,080,736 in grants to YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER?
- Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $261,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing