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YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE

EIN 81-0535303 BOZEMAN, MT

Revenue 2023
$5,351,043
Expenses 2023
$4,121,392

Program services were 84.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 157

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 · 2023

Mission

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Programs Focus on Connecting and Protecting Habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so that together people and nature can thrive.

  • Marketing & Communication (MarComm), Policy, and Communities & Conservation Management Programs - WITH YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON BEING ONE OF THE MOST INTACT LARGE MOUNTAIN REGIONS IN THE WORLD, Y2YS AIM IS TO ENSURE THAT THE INCREDIBLE biODIVERSITY HERE MAY CONTINUE TO FLOURISH INTO THE FUTURE. Y2Y DRIVES CONSERVATION AT THE SCALE THAT NATURE DEMANDS. WE ARE ADDRESSING TWO OF THE GREATEST THREATS FACING THE PLANET TODAY CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS BY PROTECTING CRITICAL WILDLIFE HABITAT AND ENSURING CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN PROTECTED AREAS, ENABLING MOVEMENT ACROSS THIS WHOLE MOUNTAIN REGION, SO THAT A WIDE RANGE OF WILDLIFE HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO ROAM, FEED, AND REPRODUCE. Y2Y STUDIES HABITAT NEEDS OF AND THREATS TO WILDLIFE IN THE YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON REGION TO DETERMINE WHICH CONFIGURATION OF HABITATS AND LINKAGES BETWEEN THEM ARE NEEDED.FOR WILDLIFE POPULATIONS TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE OVER TIME. Y2Y RESEARCHES AND CONDUCTS OUTREACH ADDRESSING LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION, AND WILDLIFE CONFLICT ISSUES, AND MAKES INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR LAND AND WATER MANAGERS, CONSERVATION PARTNERS, AND THE INTERESTED PUBLIC. Y2Y PROVIDES NETWORKING SERVICES (WEBSITE, LISTSERVE, ELECTRONIC NEWS, WORKSHOPS), AND ORGANIZES MEETINGS AND SCIENCE WORKSHOPS.

    Expenses $2,598,266 · Grants $72,900

  • Wildlife Corridor Conservation - WE ADVANCE VOLUNTARY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH PARTNERS TO IDENTIFY AND CONSERVE KEY LANDS IN WILDLIFE CORRIDORS TO ENSURE THAT THE RANGE OF ACTIVITIES ON THOSE LANDS ALLOW FOR SUCCESSFUL WILDLIFE MOVEMENT ACROSS THEM. THIS CAN INCLUDE WORKING WITH LAND TRUSTS (WHO THEN HOLD AND MANAGE THE LAND) TO EXECUTE CONSERVATION EASEMENTS OR AND PURCHASES, PROVIDING INFORMATION AND TOOLS TO ADDRESS WILDLIFE CONFLICT, AND ADVANCING TARGETED RESTORATION OF NATURE AS WELL AS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH.

    Expenses $491,442

  • In our science program, Y2Y works with natural and social scientists to design applies research projects to help conservation issues and strengthen the information basis for management. This includes leading research and convening external specialists on cross-disciplinary issues, publishing in scientific journals, co-supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. We synthesize existing science (including peer-reviewed primary research papers and "Grey" literature) working to make the results accessible and relevant to partners and interested parties within and beyond the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

    Expenses $405,015

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jodi Hilty

    President

    Total calculated
    $189,503
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $189,503
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $189,503 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported + $189,503 related

  • Scott Brennan

    Sr. Director

    Total calculated
    $138,097
    From this org
    $34,600
    From related orgs
    $100,164
    Other
    $3,333
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Pat Smith

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bryan Hurlbutt

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bill Guza

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Vedder

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Donovan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Weldon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonah Greenberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Groves

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Lapper

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lynn Scarlett

    Board Member

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,351,043
    Expenses
    $4,121,392
    Contributions
    $5,212,852
    Grants paid
    $72,900
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,413,408
    Expenses
    $2,502,625
    Contributions
    $3,399,036
    Grants paid
    $29,180

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
    $3,419,566
    Expenses
    $2,100,735
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,186,486

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,185,785
    Expenses
    $3,629,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,744,212

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

  • Greater Hells Canyon Council

    $16,900

    2023 Support for Tittooqa Hipt Program

  • Braided River

    $10,000

    2023 Columbia River Watershed Campaign

  • Theodore Roosevelt Conservati

    $10,000

    2023 Montana Wildlife Crossings

  • Eastern Oregon Legacy Lands

    $6,680

    2022 Conservation

Where these grants went next →

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 2023 return

  • Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initit

    Conservation, Policy, Communications · CA

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.