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PARK COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL

EIN 36-3699660 LIVINGSTON, MT

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Revenue 2025
$1,284,790
Expenses 2025
$1,118,340

Program services were 74.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C010
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 164

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

PCEC works to protect the land, water, air, wildlife and foster a resilient future for Yellowstone's Northern Gateway.

  • Protect and Advocate for Healthy Ecosystems: Park County Environmental Council (PCEC) protected the land, water, air, and wildlife of Yellowstones Northern Gateway by advancing conservation policies, responsible land-use planning, and wildlife coexistence initiatives. PCEC worked with community members to oppose a proposed large-scale resort development in the Suce Creek area near the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. PCEC promoted science-based wildlife management, including efforts to reduce wolf hunting pressure near Yellowstone National Park and strengthen bear coexistence practices in Park County and Livingston. PCEC also partnered on Indigenous and community oral history projects to elevate diverse perspectives on land stewardship. Through advocacy, PCEC advanced protections for grizzlies, bison, wolves, pollinators, and other native species.

    Expenses $575,875

  • Create Thriving Communities: PCEC fostered a resilient future for Yellowstones Northern Gateway by advancing smart growth policies, climate -adaptive infrastructure, and community-led solutions that protect land, water, air, and quality of life. The organization supported local efforts to adapt to wildfire, flooding, and other climate-related impacts while promoting strategies to lower greenhouse gas emissions. In 2025, this work contributed to updates to Livingstons downtown and parks master plans, strengthened watershed protections and smart growth provisions in the city zoning code, expanded bicycle infrastructure and trails, the planting of nearly 100 more trees to diversify the urban forest, and the acquisition of electric school buses for local public schools.

    Expenses $153,962

  • Educate Conservation Leaders: PCEC empowered community members to protect the land, water, air, and wildlife of Yellowstones Northern Gateway through education, leadership development, and inclusive civic engagement. The organization engaged youth through school-based programs, paid internships, independent studies, and curriculum development, and provided accessible learning opportunities for broader audiences. In 2025, participating youth served as keynote speakers at national conferences, demonstrating the impact of the program. PCECs strategic plan identified conservation education as a priority for expanded investment, and the organization allocated resources to hire a full-time Director of Educational Programming. These efforts strengthened a diverse and community-driven conservation movement advancing long-term stewardship and resilience.

    Expenses $101,720

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.

  • Max Hjortsberg

    Managing Dir

    Total calculated
    $120,115
    From this org
    $99,349
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,766
    Hours/week
    40

  • Erica Lighthiser

    Managing Dir

    Total calculated
    $117,140
    From this org
    $96,374
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,766
    Hours/week
    40

  • Wendy Riley

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Seabring Davis

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lucinda Reinold

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kelly Niles

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph Dorn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Cochran

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shiloh Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Heidke

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,284,790
    Expenses
    $1,118,340
    Contributions
    $1,254,249
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $953,522
    Expenses
    $964,989
    Contributions
    $928,157
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $802,340
    Expenses
    $782,379
    Contributions
    $791,440
    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
    $729,121
    Expenses
    $510,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $495,801

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $612,314
    Expenses
    $425,934
    Assets (EOY)
    $275,640

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,430
    Expenses
    $360,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $88,626

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015
Principal officer
Michelle Uberuaga
Mailing address
PO Box 164Livingston MT 59047
Website
http://envirocouncil.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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.

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