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HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE

EIN 46-3635624 MISSOULA, MT

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Revenue 2024
$1,789,638
Expenses 2024
$1,387,194

Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
2000
Street
120 HICKORY ST STE B

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE B). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Heart of the Rockies Initiative is a partnership of 29 local, regional, and national land trusts in the Central Rockies of North America. Our mission is to ensure connected habitat and working lands for people and wildlife by increasing the pace of durable conservation. We work from common ground to find lasting, locally-driven solutions to the social and ecological challenges across the region. Together, we help land trusts, landowners, and communities share ideas, connections, and technologies across boundaries. We believe that conservation is rooted in local actions and needs. We bring a community-based approach, founded upon concern and respect for all people and communities of our region.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTE LAND CONSERVATION THROUGH EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC & INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE LAND TRUSTS.

  • AS A LAND TRUST PARTNERSHIP, OUR PRIMARY PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE WORK OF OUR LAND TRUST MEMBERS. IN 2024, WE OPERATED A PROGRAM TO ACCELERATE THE PACE OF CONSERVATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIVATE LANDS FOR WILDLIFE CONNECTIVITY. WE HELPED INCREASE THE PROFILE OF LOCAL, PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATIONS ROLE IN SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES, ECONOMIES, NATURAL SYSTEMS, AND WILDLIFE POPULATIONS AT A LARGE SCALE. WE DELIVERED THE LATEST SCIENCE TO ON-THE-GROUND PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION PRACTITIONERS ON LARGE LANDSCAPE ISSUES LIKE CONNECTIVITY, CLIMATE RESILIENCE, AND PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURALLANDS AT SCALES NEEDED FOR LOCAL DECISIONS.

    Expenses $640,020 · Grants $73,233 · Revenue $9,057

  • IN 2023, THE CONFLICT REDUCTION PROGRAM GREW OUT OF THE HIGH DIVIDE COLLABORATIVE INTO ITS OWN PROGRAM. IT ENSURES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES HAVE RELIABLE AND PREDICTABLE ACCESS TO RESOURCES THAT PREVENT CONFLICTS WITH CARNIVORES, BENEFITING WILDLIFE AND WORKING LANDS. UNIQUE AMONG OTHER REGIONAL EFFORTS, HEART OF THE ROCKIES INITIATIVE SERVES AS A COORDINATOR AND CONVENOR OF LOCAL, STATE, AND TRIBAL GROUPS COMMITTED TO CARNIVORE CONFLICT REDUCTION, CREATING A RIPPLE EFFECT THAT ALLOWS OUR CONSERVATION COMMUNITY TO ACHIEVE MORE TOGETHER THAN ANY OF US COULD ALONE.

    Expenses $286,378 · Grants $97,110

  • OUR RURAL INITIATIVES PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED FROM THE PREMISE THAT THRIVING RURAL COMMUNITIES ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO THRIVING CONSERVATION. THE PROGRAM SERVES RURAL AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH A COMMUNITY-LED PROCESS TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT COMMUNITY VITALITY PROJECTS THAT DEEPEN A SENSE OF PLACE, SUPPORT THRIVING ECONOMIES, AND ENSURE THE OUTDOORS IS ACCESSIBLE AND SUPPORTS COMMUNITY WELL-BEING.

    Expenses $121,628 · Grants $21,108

  • COORDINATED AND CONVENED THE HIGH DIVIDE COLLABORATIVE A PARTNERSHIP OF RANCHERS, LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS, PUBLIC LAND MANAGERS, STATE WILDLIFE MANAGERS, SCIENTISTS, AND CONSERVATION GROUPS IN A PORTION OF IDAHO AND MONTANA FOR PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING, NETWORKING, FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES, AND CONSERVATION DELIVERY. WE SUPPORTED AND HELPED EXPAND LANDOWNER-LED WILDLIFE CONFLICT REDUCTION EFFORTS.

    Expenses $58,322 · Grants $11,779

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Joann Grant

    MANAGING DIR.

    Total calculated
    $138,390
    From this org
    $124,524
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,866
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kali Hannon

    MANAGING DIR.

    Total calculated
    $133,166
    From this org
    $120,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,770
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gavin Ricklefs

    MANAGING DIR.

    Total calculated
    $35,862
    From this org
    $35,862
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Max Ludington

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Crowder

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Bean

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Bell

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Owens

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gary Wolfe

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kristin Troy

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Rice

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Cox

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Denny Iverson

    MEMBER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,789,638
    Expenses
    $1,387,194
    Contributions
    $1,748,823
    Grants paid
    $172,110
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,546,716
    Expenses
    $1,534,189
    Contributions
    $1,484,493
    Grants paid
    $344,332
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,286,544
    Expenses
    $1,311,698
    Contributions
    $1,285,225
    Grants paid
    $256,696

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
    $1,215,140
    Expenses
    $975,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $464,680

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $648,698
    Expenses
    $724,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,204

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $498,637
    Expenses
    $740,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $276,445

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $543,278
    Expenses
    $482,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $513,204

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $363,328
    Expenses
    $366,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $454,790

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $464,249
    Expenses
    $512,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $458,337

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $188,377
    Expenses
    $365,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,007

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $800,097
    Expenses
    $375,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $685,141

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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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 on its 2024 return

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.