YELLOWSTONE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C600

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 675

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

• YWS provides lifelong care to wildlife native to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks has deemed as unable to survive if released back into their natural habitats. The wildlife were injured, orphaned, or habituated to humans. Providing lifelong care includes safe habitats, food, and medical care. As of 2024, resident species included: American Black Bear, American Badger, Bobcats, Gray Wolf, Coyote, Red Fox, Bison, Racoon, Sandhill Crane, Turkey Vulture, Crow, Raven, Owl, Raptors and Corvid, and Salamander

  Expenses $398,253

• The wildlife residents at YW have unique stories of survival creating an opportunity for public education. As indicated by our mission, sharing a message of education and conservation is a focus of the organization. During 2024, YWS conducted school programs,tours and encounters. The full program reached over 4,415 students through programming and thousands of visitors participating in keeper talks. The program continued to grow in 2024 and was supported by two educators, one full-time and one part-time, to serve the demand for environmental and wildlife programs, and to service area schools.

  Expenses $74,412

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.

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

  $527,018

  Expenses

  $560,833

  Contributions

  $391,019

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $751,754

  Expenses

  $493,332

  Contributions

  $579,819

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $515,111

  Expenses

  $527,806

  Contributions

  $414,872

  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

  $534,585

  Expenses

  $465,370

  Assets (EOY)

  $843,377

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $614,998

  Expenses

  $416,097

  Assets (EOY)

  $917,990

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $373,930

  Expenses

  $393,689

  Assets (EOY)

  $553,692

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $382,673

  Expenses

  $400,739

  Assets (EOY)

  $570,868

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $403,943

  Expenses

  $439,404

  Assets (EOY)

  $594,902

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $343,907

  Expenses

  $468,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $883,908

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $375,710

  Expenses

  $440,807

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,006,707

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $643,888

  Expenses

  $472,387

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,144,521

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $418,014

  Expenses

  $525,141

  Assets (EOY)

  $930,513

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $364,410

  Assets (EOY)

  $893,325

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

• RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $29,208

  2025 · PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSE

• HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INC

  $25,000

  2023 · Funding for habitat at Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary

• RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $23,532

  2024 · PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSE

• RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $19,184

  2023 · PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSE

• MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $7,801

  2023 · ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION

• MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $7,725

  2022 · ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION

• MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $7,660

  2024 · ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION

• RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $0

  2022 · PHILANTHROPIC PURPOSE

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