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RUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION

EIN 45-0487621 SHERIDAN, MT

Revenue 2024
$1,165,835
Expenses 2024
$526,611

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C34
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 638

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE RUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND ENHANCING THE NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MAKEUP OF THE RUBY VALLEY AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE PRESERVATION OF OPEN SPACE, CONTINUATION OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS AND ASSOCIATED DEMONSTRATIONS, AND EDUCTION AND OUTREACH EFFORTS.

  • AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS - CONSISTENT WITH THE MISSION AND GOALS OF THE FOUNDATION, WE CONTINUED TO OPERATE THE RANCH FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES, INCLUDING HAY PRODUCTION AND CATTLE GRAZING. HAY AND PASTURE WERE SOLD AT MARKET RATES TO GENERATE INCOME AND OFFSET OPERATING EXPENSES. AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED FOLLOWING BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES INCLUDING ROTATIONAL GRAZING, SOIL NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT AND IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION TO DEMONSTRATE WISE USE OF RESOURCES.

    Expenses $243,138 · Revenue $93,164

  • RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION IN LINE WITH OUR CONSERVATION DEMONSTRATION GOALS, WE IMPLEMENTED THE CATTAIL CREEK RESTORATION PROJECT. MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE CONTINUED ON EXISTING PROJECTS INCLUDING THE RESTORATION OF CLEAR CREEK, THE HERITAGE APPLE ORCHARD, POLLINATOR PLANTINGS, WETLAND DEVELOPMENTS AND SOIL HEALTH TRIALS. MULTIPLE GROUPS VISITED THE RANCH TO VIEW ONE OR MORE OF THE EXISTING RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS. STAFF TOURED THE PROJECTS AND GAVE PRESENTATIONS ON THESE EFFORTS AND RESULTS TO-DATE. PLANNING EFFORTS WERE COMPLETED FOR FUTURE RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN 2025 INCLUDING SEVERAL SOIL AMENDMENTS AND CROP FERTILITY EXPERIMENTS.

    Expenses $61,475 · Revenue $251,505

  • OUTREACH AND EDUCATION - THE FOUNDATION CONTINUED TO CONTRACT WITH RANCH RESOURCES TO PROVIDE A FULL-TIME OUTREACH COORDINATOR. THE COORDINATOR MET WITH HUNDREDS OF GUESTS PROVIDING OUTREACH AND EDUCATION SERVICES INCLUDING RANCH TOURS, EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS, SCHOOL GROUP EVENTS AND MANAGED RECREATIONAL ACCESS FOR FISHING AND HUNTING. THE COORDINATOR ALSO DISSEMINATED AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE INFORMATION THROUGH PUBLICATION OF A BOOK, REGULAR NEWSLETTERS, A COLUMN IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER, AND WEEKLY EMAILS THAT WENT TO HUNDREDS OF SUBSCRIBERS. OUTREACH EFFORTS ALSO INCLUDE PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL CONSERVATION GROUPS, FIELD TOURS AND PROJECTS.

    Expenses $99,454

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • NEIL BARNOSKY

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • BRUCE PETERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE WOOD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL DURHAM

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • LISA MATTHEWS

    SECRETARY-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHAEL ARSLANIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS MITTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RUSSELL MITTS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GEORGE OLSEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROCK RINGLING

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENDALL VAN DYK

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $147,203
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $129,260
    Other
    $17,943
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related

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
    $1,165,835
    Expenses
    $526,611
    Contributions
    $482,333
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,513,017
    Expenses
    $423,189
    Contributions
    $250,448
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $153,725
    Expenses
    $468,516
    Contributions
    $260,482
    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
    $4,436,693
    Expenses
    $434,524
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,229,112

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $776,472
    Expenses
    $384,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,493,541

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,149,497
    Expenses
    $414,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,978,762

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $736,596
    Expenses
    $536,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,973,402

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $796,208
    Expenses
    $408,774
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,429,149

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $455,862
    Expenses
    $387,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,470,076

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $455,294
    Expenses
    $363,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,381,582

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $496,149
    Expenses
    $323,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,385,856

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $448,972
    Expenses
    $309,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,988,673

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.

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

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.