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PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST

EIN 81-0506868 HELENA, MT

Revenue 2024
$8,891,943
Expenses 2024
$6,360,933

Program services were 93.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 892

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

TO INSPIRE CONNECTIONS TO THE LANDSCAPES, WATER, WILDLIFE, RECREATION AND AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE OF WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA THROUGH CONSERVATION, NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  • CONSERVATION LAND AND EASEMENT ACQUISITION, ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, & MONITORING:PPLT ACQUIRES CONSERVATION EASEMENTS OR FEE LAND TO PERMANENTLY PROTECT CONSERVATION AND/OR RECREATIONAL VALUES OF SPECIFIC LAND PARCELS. IN, 2024, PPLT COMPLETED ONE FEE TITLE ACQUISITION OF CONSERVATION LAND AND TWO CONSERVATION EASEMENTS ON PRIVATE LAND TOTALING 7,739-ACRES IN LEWIS AND CLARK, BROADWATER AND MEAGHER COUNTIES. PPLT ALSO ORCHESTRATES ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION EFFORTS ON KEY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LANDS IN CONJUNCTION WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNERS, PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CONSERVATION GROUPS. IN 2024, PPLT CONTINUED RESTORATION ACTIVITIES ON APPROXIMATELY 700 ACRES OF LAND IN LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY.

    Expenses $5,469,389 · Grants $25,134 · Revenue $73,013

  • LAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: PPLT'S LAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MAINTAINS AND RESTORES FEE-OWNED PROPERTIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WILDLIFE HABITAT, RESILIENT LANDSCAPE, AND RECREATION. CURRENTLY, PPLT OWNS AND MANAGES 2,239 ACRES OF LAND IN LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY.

    Expenses $243,191

  • TRAILS AND PARKS PROGRAM - PLAN DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE:THE GROVE PARK WAS REPAIRED AFTER SPRING FLOODS. TRAIL BUILDING AT PRICKLY PEAR PARK WAS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED AND WAS PREPARED FOR A 2025 OPENING. PARK AND TRAIL MAINTENANCE CONTINUED IN HELENA'S SOUTH HILLS AND AT TENMILE CREEK PARK. OVER 1,000 HOURS OF CONTRACT AND VOLUNTEER HOURS WERE RECORDED IN CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $216,312 · Revenue $99,317

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.

  • PAM BUCY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • ELIZA FRAZER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • JILL LLOYD

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NICHOLE ANDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BETSY BURNS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARLY ELLIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEANNIE ETCHART

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TYRRELL HIBBARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AIDAN MHYRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE SCHMECHEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILL SHROPSHIRE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN TIETZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIS YARBERRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY HOLLOW

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $142,775
    From this org
    $132,079
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,696
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $8,891,943
    Expenses
    $6,360,933
    Contributions
    $8,418,510
    Grants paid
    $25,134
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,056,944
    Expenses
    $1,970,943
    Contributions
    $3,757,710
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,438,886
    Expenses
    $7,634,308
    Contributions
    $9,302,770
    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
    $3,386,692
    Expenses
    $2,513,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,481,492

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,530,215
    Expenses
    $2,470,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,639,040

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,186,240
    Expenses
    $2,595,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,340,369

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,182,066
    Expenses
    $1,005,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,929,962

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,157,493
    Expenses
    $1,099,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,798,406

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,883,080
    Expenses
    $2,872,279
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,819,140

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,305,305
    Expenses
    $1,594,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,256,422

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,707,695
    Expenses
    $1,658,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,697,225

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $871,310
    Expenses
    $844,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,511,315

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $809,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,815,926

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

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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 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.