- Revenue 2024
- $675,423
- Expenses 2024
- $648,541
Program services were 79.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D013
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 224 WEST FRONT ST
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 MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION IS A STATEWIDE CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO PROTECTING WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE HABITAT, AND PUBLIC ACCESS FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION.
Activities or mission (Part I)
MWF ADVOCATED TO PROTECT MONTANA'S FISH AND WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE HABITAT AND PUBLIC ACCESS FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION.
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WILDLIFE PROTECTION: MWF INFORMED HUNTERS, ANGLERS AND OTHER CONSERVATIONISTS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF MONTANA'S FISH AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES. WE HELPED INCREASE PROTECTION FOR ELK, DEER AND OTHER BIG GAME AS WELL AS THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES. OUR OUTREACH ALSO RAISED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE NEED TO PREVENT WILDLIFE FROM BECOMING ENDANGERED.HABITAT CONSERVATION: THROUGH OUTREACH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION, MWF HELPED ENSURE THAT HABITAT WAS PROTECTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE AS WELL AS HUNTERS, ANGLERS AND OTHER WILDLIFE ENTHUSIASTS. THIS INCLUDES:-SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE MORE PUBLIC LAND AND PROTECT HABITAT THROUGH VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION OF PRIVATE LAND.-FIGHTING TO PROTECT BACKCOUNTRY ROADLESS LANDS TO PROVIDE WILDLIFE HABITAT AND HUNTING OPPORTUNITY.-PROMOTING LOCAL COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT.-PREVENTING THE SALE OR TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS.OUTDOOR ACCESS: MWF PROMOTED GREATER ACCESS FOR HUNTING, FISHING AND OTHER OUTDOOR RECREATION AND EDUCATED PEOPLE ABOUT ATTACKS ON PUBLIC ROAD USE, STREAM ACCESS, AND OTHER LEGAL PUBLIC PROPERTY RIGHTS. WE ALSO WORKED TO IMPROVE RELATIONS BETWEEN PRIVATE LANDOWNERS AND HUNTERS, INCLUDING EXPANSION OF STATE AND FEDERAL INCENTIVE PROGRAMS FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS.
Expenses $513,256
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.
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Francis SzollosiFRANCIS SZOLLOSI
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $92,800
- From this org
- $92,800
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Chris ServheenCHRIS SERVHEEN
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3.3
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Elizabeth McFarlandELIZABETH MCFARLAND
VP INTERNAL
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Marion CherryMARION CHERRY
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tanya GatesTANYA GATES
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom PuchlerzTOM PUCHLERZ
PAST PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Skip KowalskiSKIP KOWALSKI
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Mike MershonMIKE MERSHON
PRESIDENT ELECT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tim AldrichTIM ALDRICH
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lisa BallardLISA BALLARD
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.4
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Glenn EilsonGLENN EILSON
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Logan BrowerLOGAN BROWER
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dale BeckerDALE BECKER
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lailani UphamLAILANI UPHAM
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Chris MarchionCHRIS MARCHION
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gary WolfeGARY WOLFE
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jim VashroJIM VASHRO
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $675,423
- Expenses
- $648,541
- Contributions
- $654,815
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $929,269
- Expenses
- $1,087,428
- Contributions
- $923,343
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $919,570
- Expenses
- $982,918
- Contributions
- $915,717
- Grants paid
- $4,000
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $998,715
- Expenses
- $966,830
- Assets (EOY)
- $784,512
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,025,233
- Expenses
- $970,734
- Assets (EOY)
- $784,514
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $747,436
- Expenses
- $784,796
- Assets (EOY)
- $593,629
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $799,013
- Expenses
- $773,465
- Assets (EOY)
- $582,621
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $801,845
- Expenses
- $640,788
- Assets (EOY)
- $566,158
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $445,205
- Expenses
- $460,250
- Assets (EOY)
- $425,968
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $469,568
- Expenses
- $437,311
- Assets (EOY)
- $434,804
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $398,181
- Expenses
- $372,946
- Assets (EOY)
- $433,390
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $305,064
- Expenses
- $298,948
- Assets (EOY)
- $416,207
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $368,796
- Assets (EOY)
- $410,054
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
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WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
$112,500
2022 CONSERVATION EDU.
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WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
$97,000
2024 CONSERVATION EDUCATI
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WESTERN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
$96,000
2023 CONSERVATION EDUCATI
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$81,000
2024 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY AND JUSTICE
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$63,431
2022 CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE
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$57,841
2023 CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE
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$49,500
2023 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND/OR ENVIRON. EQUITY AND JUSTICE.
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$40,200
2022 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE
$40,000
2023 MT DONOR TABLE
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$35,000
2022 LAND OR MARINE CONSERVATION, PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND/OR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
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 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.