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MONTANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION

EIN 81-0303948 MISSOULA, MT

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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.

  • 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.

  • Francis Szollosi

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $92,800
    From this org
    $92,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Chris Servheen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3.3
  • Elizabeth McFarland

    VP INTERNAL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marion Cherry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tanya Gates

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tom Puchlerz

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Skip Kowalski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mike Mershon

    PRESIDENT ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Aldrich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Ballard

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.4
  • Glenn Eilson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Logan Brower

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dale Becker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lailani Upham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Marchion

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Wolfe

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $675,423
    Expenses
    $648,541
    Contributions
    $654,815
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $929,269
    Expenses
    $1,087,428
    Contributions
    $923,343
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $998,715
    Expenses
    $966,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $784,512
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,025,233
    Expenses
    $970,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $784,514
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $747,436
    Expenses
    $784,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $593,629
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,013
    Expenses
    $773,465
    Assets (EOY)
    $582,621
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $801,845
    Expenses
    $640,788
    Assets (EOY)
    $566,158
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $445,205
    Expenses
    $460,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $425,968
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $469,568
    Expenses
    $437,311
    Assets (EOY)
    $434,804
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $398,181
    Expenses
    $372,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $433,390
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,064
    Expenses
    $298,948
    Assets (EOY)
    $416,207
  • 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

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.