Taylor Kitsch and the Whitefish Security Summit Present: A Benefit Dinner for Howlers Ridge
Support Taylor's vision for a nature-based healing retreat for veterans, trauma survivors, and people in recovery from substance use disorders.
Taylor’s connection to the special operations and intelligence communities is genuine, personal, and well known to everyone in that room.
He portrayed Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy in Lone Survivor — and has described Marcus Luttrell as a brother, a relationship that continued long after filming ended. In The Terminal List and The Terminal List: Dark Wolf — co-created by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr — he plays Ben Edwards, a SEAL Chief who crosses into CIA paramilitary operations. Dark Wolf premiered in August 2025 on Prime Video. He is an executive producer on Dark Wolf — not a hired actor, but an invested creative partner in stories about the people who will be sitting across the table from him that night.
On Thursday evening, April 3, at the Whitefish Security Summit, we are dedicating a two-hour dinner to a single purpose: launching Howlers Ridge’s major donor network.
Howlers Ridge
Howlers Ridge is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit retreat center on 22 acres outside Bozeman, Montana — founded by Taylor to provide nature-based healing for veterans, trauma survivors, and people in recovery from substance use disorders. The facility is under construction and will offer residential retreat programs grounded in wilderness experience and trauma-informed care.
The need is not abstract to anyone in this room. Suicide rates among special operations veterans remain significantly higher than the general population. The intersection of combat trauma and substance use is well documented and poorly served by existing systems. Howlers Ridge is being built to address exactly that gap — in a Montana landscape that is, for many of these veterans, home.
The Evening
4:30 PM — Pre-Dinner Reception Taylor circulates freely. Informal, unhurried. Every ticket holder has access.
5:15 PM — Dinner Begins / Welcome Remarks Jeff Caruso, Managing Partner, Whitefish Security Summit
5:30 PM — Taylor Kitsch: Howlers Ridge Personal story, the vision, current build progress, and why now.
5:55 PM — Veterans Panel Ground-level perspective on veteran mental health and recovery — the gap this facility is built to fill.
6:20 PM — Q&A with the Room Open conversation. This audience will drive it.
6:55 PM — Closing Remarks + Giving Opportunity Direct appeal. WSS will facilitate follow-up for anyone interested in a larger conversation.
7:00 PM — Post-Dinner Private Reception / Founding Donors Closed, intimate. Taylor available.
Tickets
Patron — $1,000 Pre-dinner reception and dinner. Full program access.
Benefactor — $2,500 Above, plus priority seating and your name in the printed donor acknowledgment distributed to the room.
Founding Donor — $5,000 Above, plus post-dinner private reception with Taylor and a warm introduction to Howlers Ridge for larger partnership conversations.
Tax deductibility: Howlers Ridge is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The portion of your ticket exceeding the fair market value of goods and services received (food, beverage, and program access) qualifies as a charitable contribution. WSS will forward proceeds on a per-donor basis in your name, and Howlers Ridge will issue a written acknowledgment reflecting the deductible portion of your contribution.
Contact
Space is limited. To reserve your seat:
Jeff Caruso • Founder & Managing Partner, Whitefish Security Summit