Totals
- Total revenue
- $725,489
- Total expenses
- $1,217,258
- Contributions and grants received
- $669,149
- Grants paid
- $153,257
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $56,340
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,379,810
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $79,713
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,300,097
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $947,843
- Management and general expenses
- $195,138
- Fundraising expenses
- $74,277
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $947,843
Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$669,149
-
3 · Investment income
total $56,340 · excluded $56,340
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $153,104 · program services $153,104
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $153 · program services $153
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $102,292 · program services $83,879 · management and general $16,367 · fundraising $2,046
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $521,822 · program services $428,240 · management and general $46,320 · fundraising $47,262
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $87,287 · program services $66,918 · management and general $13,677 · fundraising $6,692
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $51,722 · program services $42,510 · management and general $5,256 · fundraising $3,956
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $43,971 · program services $43,971
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $56,747 · management and general $56,747
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $43,039 · program services $19,553 · management and general $18,802 · fundraising $4,684
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $12,592 · program services $9,700 · management and general $1,842 · fundraising $1,050
-
14 · Information technology
total $10,799 · program services $10,799
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $31,527 · program services $16,005 · management and general $11,514 · fundraising $4,008
-
17 · Travel
total $38,479 · program services $35,472 · management and general $1,669 · fundraising $1,338
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $6,044 · program services $6,012 · management and general $9 · fundraising $23
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $5,211 · management and general $5,211
-
24a · Other expenses: Educational/Promotional Materi
total $22,093 · program services $21,838 · fundraising $255
-
24b · Other expenses: Filing Fees
total $13,522 · program services $58 · management and general $13,458 · fundraising $6
-
24c · Other expenses: Postage and Shipping
total $5,383 · program services $1,840 · management and general $3,041 · fundraising $502
-
24d · Other expenses: Subscriptions & Publications
total $3,922 · program services $3,561 · management and general $27 · fundraising $334
-
24e · All other expenses
total $7,549 · program services $4,230 · management and general $1,198 · fundraising $2,121
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $630,802 · end of year $102,449
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $42,665 · end of year $37,865
-
4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $6,449 · end of year $15,095
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$6,713
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$6,713
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $2,011,963 · end of year $2,220,790
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
-
15 · Other assets
beginning of year $34,155 · end of year $3,611
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $86,457 · end of year $79,713
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $31,177
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,444,441 · end of year $2,119,784
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $163,959 · end of year $180,313
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The Mountain Lion Foundation's mission is to ensure that mountain lions survive and flourish in the wild. We do this work by championing broad protections for mountain lions and their habitats across the United States, fostering appreciation of mountain lions and the ecological significance, and cultivating proactive, community-based co-existence for people and lions.
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PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY The Mountain Lion Foundation champions broad protections for mountain lions across the United States. Working with policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels, we empower our members and partners to advocate for strong protections for mountain lions and their habitats. From supporting measures that reduce human-wildlife conflict to pushing for stronger, science-based regulations on hunting and trapping, we are on the front lines, making sure mountain lions voices are heard. In fiscal year 20242025, the Mountain Lion Foundation, along with its members and partners, continued to advocate for proactive, science-based protections for mountain lions in almost every western state.
Expenses $447,011 · Grants $46,906
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OUTREACH AND EDUCATION The Mountain Lion Foundation fosters appreciation of mountain lions and their ecological significance. Mountain lions are an indispensable keystone species. However, like many top carnivores, mountain lions suffer from some widely held, but false and harmful misconceptions. Our educational outreach dispels those myths and misinformation and helps people to see mountain lions as a vital apex species deserving preservation rather than exploitation. In fiscal year 2024-2025, the Mountain Lion Foundation reached more people across the country than ever before through its strategic engagement of audiences via in person presentations, refocused social media, the website, revamped emails, new webinar content, and publications. The publication was the essential guide to recent scientific research on mountain lions.
Expenses $350,592 · Revenue $9,172
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COEXISTENCE THE - Mountain Lion Foundation cultivates proactive, community-based coexistence for the protection of both people and lions. We work in communities across the United States to highlight the fact that living with lions is not just possible, but simple. The Mountain Lion Foundation provides information, tools, and advice about protecting lions to a range of people families, farmers and ranchers, state agency personnel, journalists, rural decision makers, and more to help communities live peacefully among lions, address cougar encounters as they occur and give mountain lions everything they need to flourish. In fiscal year 2024-2025, the Mountain Lion Foundation responded with protective information and advice to many dozens of incidents across the country such as lion sightings, suspected depredations, and lion mortalities. We also disseminated information to hobby farmers and other members of the producer community that helped them coexist peacefully with their lion neighbors.
Expenses $145,925
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LOBBYING - In 20242025, the Mountain Lion Foundation achieved notable advocacy milestones by opposing harmful legislative efforts like Californias SB 818, supporting Colorados Proposition 91 to ban mountain lion trophy hunting, and actively participating in state legislative hearings (e.g., SB 427). They expanded public engagement through their Coexistence Ambassador Program in 11 states and reinforced legal advocacy through efforts such as a lawsuit against Utahs H.B. 469 Wildlife Related Amendments. Their strategies combined grassroots mobilization, expert testimony, educational campaigns, and legal action to influence public policy and protect mountain lions.
Expenses $4,315
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
-
Brent Lyles
Executive
- Total calculated
- $102,292
- From this org
- $102,292
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Bob McCoy
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Chris Tromborg
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Toby Cooper
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Don Molde
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Fauna Tomlinson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Elizabeth Sullivan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Bruce Rylander
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
John Ziegler
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
-
Cats Arent Trophies
$150,000
Advocacy
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202523169349302977
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