Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in May 2004.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Who runs it and what they're paid
9 people listed on the 990-EZ; $81K paid to officers and key staff.
Debbie B Fassnacht’s $37K as Executive Director is at the 20th percentile of top reported officer pay among 1989 $100K–1M environment nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 7 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie B Fassnacht | $36,712 | $35,998 | $33,002 | $23,208 | $20,167 |
| Stephanie Novak | $36,580 | $36,066 | $31,502 | $21,409 | — |
| Sara McComas | $7,757 | $22,953 | $30,288 | $21,101 | $14,588 |
| Brook Bauer | — | $15,379 | $27,657 | $2,258 | — |
| Aissa Wise | — | — | — | $21,599 | $14,287 |
| Katherine Leister | — | — | $1,782 | — | — |
| Cassie Sevigny | — | — | — | — | $1,326 |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See The Watershed Education Network executive salaries →Programs and updates
Educates communities about natural resources and water conservation.
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WEN's Citizen Science Stream Team performs water monitoring on Rattlesnake creek to provide critical water quality and fisheries data. Protecting and ensuring the health of our streams and watersheds is everyone's responsibility.
Our citizen science programs for youth include school programs along with experiential field trips to introduce river ecology and healthy watershed concepts to students in grades kindergarten to college. WENs field trips take place at streams and rivers across western Montana during fall and spring.
Backcountry Stream Corps (BCSC) is our two-week summer program for high school-aged youth. We train our BCSC members in data collection and observation techniques and then lead them into the Rattlesnake Creek and Grant Creek Watersheds, in order to collect specialized data on the upstream, and less accessible reaches.
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2024 990-EZ, line by line.
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Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Nov 17, 2025 | $150K | $199K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 13, 2024 | $175K | $202K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2023 | $245K | $205K | $40K | $203K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Nov 14, 2022 | $191K | $162K | 990 PDF | ||
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Nov 12, 2021 | $147K | $117K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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