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COTTONWOOD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

EIN 27-1225588 BOZEMAN, MT

Revenue 2024
$408,399
Expenses 2024
$376,864

Program services were 85.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C20
Classification
1000
Street
24 S WILLSON AVE STE 8

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

Organization is dedicated to protecting the people, forests, water and wildlife in the west

  • All Other Program Services

    Expenses $276,319

  • YELLOWSTONE CLUB/SPANISH PEAKS

    Expenses $26,287

  • Restoring Constitutional Rights and Regulating Single Use Plastics in Montana.

    Expenses $15,974

  • CONTINUING PROSECUTION OF BIG SKY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ON THE GALLATIN RIVER

    Expenses $3,114

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.

  • John Meyer

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $120,000
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

  • John Bonine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Josie Arnold

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Elfmont

    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
    $408,399
    Expenses
    $376,864
    Contributions
    $358,409
    Grants paid
    $15,015
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $242,672
    Expenses
    $304,377
    Contributions
    $219,722
    Grants paid
    $48
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $324,892
    Expenses
    $257,802
    Contributions
    $314,891
    Grants paid
    $560

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $142,583
    Expenses
    $128,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,850

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $81,252
    Expenses
    $71,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,041

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $50,329
    Expenses
    $127,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,929

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $64,588
    Expenses
    $171,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,619

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,948
    Expenses
    $159,535
    Assets (EOY)
    $173,730

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,948
    Expenses
    $159,535
    Assets (EOY)
    $173,730

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,037
    Expenses
    $57,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,845

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,037
    Expenses
    $57,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,845

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $102,981
    Expenses
    $105,103
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,679

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $100,589
    Expenses
    $87,073
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,921

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period
1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
Principal officer
John Meyer
Mailing address
24 S Willson Avenue Suite 6-7Bozeman MT 59715
Website
www.cottonwoodlaw.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.