TROUT UNLIMITED

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N610

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 7186

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of TROUT UNLIMITED INC (EIN 38-1612715). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Montana Trout Unlimiteds exempt purpose achievements continue to include protecting and restoring trout habitat, advocating for clean water and wild fish management and educating the public on Montanas fishery issues.Examples of Montana TUs FYE 2025 accomplishments to protect water quality and quantity to benefit coldwater fisheries include:Reviewed and provided input on public land management activities and management plans as they relate to protecting water resources.We continue to monitor the mining plans and activities within the Smith River watershed. Engaged in the development of a watershed restoration plan and supported on-the-ground projects to improve water quality and quantity in the Smith. MTU continues to work with partners to monitor water quality conditions and press for mitigation of damages from selenium pollution in the Kootenai River and Lake Koocanusa.MTU continues to monitor a possible rare earth elements (REEs - neodymium and praseodymium) mine in the Sheep Creek tributary of the West Fork Bitterroot River.Participate in the Frenchtown Working Group to focus on and communicate about research and cleanup of the Smurfit-Stone site on the Clark Fork River below Missoula. Successfully pushed for additional groundwater and soil sampling to be conducted to better idenfiy sources and pathways of contamination to the river.Increased instream flow through water right changes, improved infrastructure and habitat restoration.Maintained fulltime staff in the Montana State Legislature (and in relevant interim committees during non-legislative session years) to advocate for policy that benefits coldwater fisheries.Montana Trout Unlimited strives to protect high-quality fish habitat and to restore degraded streams and watersheds. Our FYE 2025 accomplishments include:Provided funding for a full-time Jefferson Watershed Project Manager with a focus on improving irrigation and ranching practices to benefit instream flow.MTU continued to work with the Custer-Gallatin National Forest (CGNF) as part of a 5-year, $3M agreement to provide a full-time Beartooth Project Manager to complete restoration projects on the National Forest.Continued to partner other groups and Tribes to evaluate Montanore Minerals (subsidiary of Hecla Mining Company) plans to expand exploration mining under the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness.Continued to prioritize research of the fishery in southwest MT. Supporting the continued evaluation of fish samples and health surveys conducted by FWP and MSU PhD students.Healthy, abundant populations of wild trout are the best measure of Montana TUs success. We emphasize conservation of sustainable wild and native trout populations. Our actions the past year include. Funding portions of wild or native trout habitat improvement projects in the Blackfoot, Beaverhead, Missouri, Yellowstone, Clark Fork, and Bitterroot River watersheds.Securing funding to increase grant opportunities for restoration and conservation projects by local TU chapters. Lead statewide advocacy for coldwater fisheries management and funding by regularly communicating with, monitored, and advised state agencies, boards and commissions.Provided official comments and regular communications with FWP leadership/regional biologists and the F&W Commission regarding using best fishery science to manage MT streams and rivers.Participated at the annual Arctic Grayling Work Group meeting. Continued to work with the USFWS to pursue amendments to the EA for a project at Upper Red Rock Lakes to benefit grayling overwintering conditions.Assisted with renewed effort to suppress lake trout in the Swan Lake system to recover bull trout populations.Montana TU is first and foremost a people organization. Achieving our mission requires engaged members, supporters and partners. We strive to improve and protect the values the public treasures about rivers and trout: Educated the next generation of conservationists with one 5-day, overnight camp.Increased awareness of fisheries issues from responsible angling and fish handling, Hoot Owl information to ongoing concerns and opportunities like AIS, catch-and-release and Keep Em Wet.Helped train the next generation of angling guides in conservation priorities and strategies.Defended Montanas best-in-the nation Stream Access Law and public lands.

  Expenses $1,281,625 · Revenue $109,943

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,820,756

  Expenses

  $1,485,215

  Contributions

  $856,858

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,286,761

  Expenses

  $977,156

  Contributions

  $659,333

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,002,742

  Expenses

  $808,389

  Contributions

  $592,509

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $666,648

  Expenses

  $921,424

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,500,576

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $756,296

  Expenses

  $532,222

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,775,877

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $614,673

  Expenses

  $587,241

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,339,068

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $721,162

  Expenses

  $522,336

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,493,160

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $437,412

  Expenses

  $399,220

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,282,976

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $546,740

  Expenses

  $498,769

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,230,306

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $407,435

  Expenses

  $457,504

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,161,437

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,022,863

  Expenses

  $1,030,257

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,229,838

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $842,012

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,437,269

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $434,700

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,399,813

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $186,338

  2023 · ARCTIC GRAYLING HABITAT RESTORED IN MT RANGELANDS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $181,350

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• RESOURCES LEGACY FUND

  $150,000

  2024 · LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $102,500

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $101,750

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · CONSERVATION EDUCATI

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $19,525

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $19,485

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• TROUT UNLIMITED

  $16,601

  2024

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $14,200

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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