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TROUT UNLIMITED

EIN 52-1765527 OVANDO, MT

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Revenue 2024
$1,972,142
Expenses 2024
$1,924,667

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D330
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1

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

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE BIG BLACKFOOT CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED (BBCTU) IS TO IDENTIFY, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PROJECTS THAT CONSERVE AND ENHANCE THE COLD WATER FISHERY OF THE BLACKFOOT RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, WHILE PRESERVING THE EXISTING CHARACTER OF THE WATERSHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE LANDOWNERS AND USERS OF THE WATERSHED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO IDENTIFY, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PROJECTS THAT CONSERVE AND ENHANCE THE COLD WATER FISHERY OF THE BLACKFOOT RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, WHILE PRESERVING THE EXISTING CHARACTER OF THE WATERSHED IN COOPERATION WITH THE LANDOWNERS AND USERS OF THE WATERSHED.

  • DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED 03.31.24, AS THE MISSION STATEMENT IMPLIES, BBCTU WAS INVOLVED IN PLANNING, IMPLEMENTING OR MONITORING A NUMBER OF SPECIFIC HABITAT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AS WELL AS PARTICIPATING WITH VALLEY RESIDENTS IN A WIDE RANGE OF GENERAL WATERSHED ISSUES. BBCTU MEMBERS AND PARTNERS PARTICIPATED IN BOTH WATERSHED-WIDE INITIATIVES AS WELL AS SPECIFIC RESTORATION PROJECTS. THE CHAPTER INITIATED AND/OR COMPLETED INSTREAM RESTORATION PROJECT DESIGNS ON ANOTHER REACH OF NEVADA CREEK AND GRAZING MANAGEMENT PROJECTS WERE DEVELOPED ON NEVADA CREEK. FISH PASSAGE PROJECTS DESIGNS WERE IMPLEMENTED ON BENEDICT CREEK, POORMAN CREEK AND CLEARWATER RIVER. BBCTU CONTINUED ITS SUPPORT OF THE RESEARCH OF MONTANA FISH, WILDLIFE AND PARKS ON THE NATIVE FISHERY OF THE BLACKFOOT. BBCTU ALSO SPONSORED AND PARTICIPATED IN A NUMBER OF EVENTS IN THE BLACKFOOT VALLEY AND WROTE SEVERAL GRANT APPLICATIONS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS. BBCTU LED SEVERAL TOURS, PRESENTED ON RESTORATION TOPICS AND ORGANIZED VOLUNTEER DAYS TO PLANT RIPARIAN VEGETATION.

    Expenses $1,911,423 · Grants $4,500

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.

  • James W Stutzman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Randy Gazda

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Daniel Horgan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Larry Hanson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Travis Thurmond

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kyle Graveley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bryan Mannix

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Harry Poett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Michael Pecora

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Pete Shinn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Stone

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,972,142
    Expenses
    $1,924,667
    Contributions
    $1,964,895
    Grants paid
    $4,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,095,771
    Expenses
    $1,005,751
    Contributions
    $1,093,368
    Grants paid
    $3,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $593,012
    Expenses
    $594,216
    Contributions
    $590,332
    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
    $1,134,911
    Expenses
    $1,063,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $238,034
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,714,395
    Expenses
    $1,693,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,517
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,453,746
    Expenses
    $1,573,496
    Assets (EOY)
    $145,293
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $878,597
    Expenses
    $794,467
    Assets (EOY)
    $299,890
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $668,910
    Expenses
    $826,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,481
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $528,271
    Expenses
    $615,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,044
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $611,199
    Expenses
    $685,134
    Assets (EOY)
    $457,939
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $649,880
    Expenses
    $450,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $527,357
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $618,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $219,640

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

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.