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Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Filed by RICKETTS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,585,000
Total expenses
$838,942
Contributions and grants received
$2,585,000
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$215,828
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$2,828,069

Listed in Part VIII

  • J Joe Ricketts

    President, Secretary and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alfred Levitt

    Secretary and General Counsel

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Walter G Wehtje

    Director of Conservation

    Total calculated
    $95,566
    Compensation
    $76,364
    Benefit plans
    $19,202
    Expense account
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$215,828
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$215,828
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

  • University of Montana

    $55,693

    Denver, CO

    Fund research regardingnongame mammel and birdspecies.

  • Friends of the Bridger-Teton

    $48,000

    Jackson, WY

    Promote the preservationand conservation of BTNF.Promote the preservation

  • University of Colorado - Denver

    $45,469

    Aurora, CO

    Continue funding and researchrelated Yellowstone Ecosystem.

  • Wyoming Wetlands Society

    $41,666

    Jackson, WY

    Preserve and protectWY wetlands; in particulartrumper swan habitat.

  • Sublette County Conservation District

    $25,000

    Pinedale, WY

    Sponsor and supportinvisible fence program.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2024
Filed
28 March 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202523179349102647

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