Clearwater Resource Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200526054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seeley Lake, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4066770069
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Education and Outdoor Survival Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,236
- Expenses
- $96,961
- Assets
- $67,429
- Liabilities
- $4,417
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Haufler (President)
- Mark Williams (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jonathan Haufler (President)
- Cathy Harrits (Director)
- Bette Orr (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage the community and facilitate efforts that will enhance, sustain, conserve and protect the natural resources and rural lifestyle of the Clearwater Watershed for present and future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Forest Restoration and Wildfire safety - The Clearwater Valley contains thousands of acres of forests, much of it public lands. The wildland-urban interface surrounding the community of Seeley Lake places it at risk of wildfire from all directions. CRC's fuel mitigation program is designed to assist private landowners with treating hazardous fuels, thus reducing the fire risk to homes/properties. CRC's Director of Terrestrial Programs responds to landowner requests for property evaluation and if qualified, assists in acquiring cost-share grants from public funds to achieve fuel and fire-risk reduction. In addition, CRC leads collaborative efforts across state and federal agencies to conduct cross-boundary efforts for fuel mitigation and forest restoration activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.