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BLACKFEET ECO KNOWLEDGE INC

EIN 87-2993172 BROWNING, MT

Revenue 2025
$938,663
Expenses 2025
$862,327

Program services were 75.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 377

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 · 2025

Mission

Blackfeet ECO Knowledge's mission is to revive and preserve Indigenous traditional knowledge systems that focus on the reciprocal relationship between bio-cultural diversity, where people and the environment work together for sustainability. The goal is to ensure cultural perpetuity by passing this knowledge to future generations for the protection of the environment.

  • Blackfeet ECO Knowledge Inc. furthered its exempt purposes by implementing Indigenous-led cultural restoration, education, stewardship, and community healing programs for the Niitsitapi/Blackfeet community. The organizations work focused on reviving, preserving, and promoting Indigenous traditional knowledge systems and reconnecting community members with land, language, ceremony, and iinii/buffalo. During the year, the organizations Way of Life programming supported sacred rematriation, intergenerational knowledge exchange, and culturally grounded healing. Activities included collaboration with museums and cultural partners regarding the return of sacred Blackfeet objects and bundles, and workshops in which Elders shared traditional ecological knowledge, oral histories, and spiritual principles with youth. The organization also advanced iinii/buffalo restoration through habitat stewardship, bio-cultural restoration, youth immersion activities, and educational preservation initiatives. The accomplishment report describes management and monitoring of approximately 36,000 acres of intact ancestral rangeland for free-roaming buffalo, youth field-based buffalo encounters, and development of an extended reality educational project to preserve and teach about the ancestral Blackfeet buffalo jump. Through the Circle Camp Initiative, Blackfeet ECO Knowledge Inc. provided land-based and culturally immersive programming, including outdoor language nests, seasonal decolonization camps, and traditional arts and skills instruction. Activities included plant identification, food systems preparation, and environmental preservation techniques designed to strengthen cultural continuity and practical land-based knowledge. The organization further conducted planning and capacity-building work to support tribal co-stewardship in the Badger-Two Medicine landscape by coordinating with tribal, federal, cross-border, and nonprofit conservation partners. It also advanced planning for a stackable credits framework intended to support buffalo rematriation and future land acquisition through carbon, biodiversity, and cultural value credit design. Collectively, these programs served tribal youth, Elders, language instructors, cultural advisors, local leaders, tribal departments, and other community partners engaged in Indigenous cultural preservation and land stewardship.

    Expenses $651,692 · Grants $20,824 · Revenue $931,726

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Edward Kennedy

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • John Murray

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Charlene Burns

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Tyson Running Wolf

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lona Running Wolf

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anna Armstrong

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jeanne Baker

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $938,663
    Expenses
    $862,327
    Contributions
    $931,726
    Grants paid
    $36,824
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $675,577
    Expenses
    $618,457
    Contributions
    $653,812
    Grants paid
    $56,262
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $675,577
    Expenses
    $618,457
    Contributions
    $653,812
    Grants paid
    $56,262
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $582,798
    Expenses
    $364,395
    Contributions
    $582,798
    Grants paid
    $21,250

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Tyson Running Wolf
Mailing address
PO Box 377Browning MT 59417

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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.

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 PC.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.