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← THE WILDER WORLD TRUST NFP

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE WILDER WORLD TRUST NFP.

Totals

Total revenue
$139,235
Total expenses
$44,903
Contributions and grants received
$139,235
Grants paid
$23,017
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$102,091
Total liabilities, end of year
$62,600
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$39,491
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$34,090
Management and general expenses
$1,991
Fundraising expenses
$8,822
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,886

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $40,113

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $1,500

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $97,622

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $23,017 · program services $23,017

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $8,572 · program services $1,136 · fundraising $7,436

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,000 · program services $5,000

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,418 · management and general $1,418

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $573 · management and general $573

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,937 · program services $4,937

  • 24a · Other expenses: Credit Card Processing Fees

    total $1,386 · fundraising $1,386

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $7,901 · end of year $102,091

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    end of year $62,600

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $7,901 · end of year $39,491

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

We exist to improve the health of our communities by restoring and preserving nature, promoting environmental stewardship, and providing access to outdoor education and recreation to all people.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We help improve the health of communities by restoring and preserving nature and providing access to outdoor education and recreation to all

  • Provided grant money to purchase interpretive signage and create an interpretive nature hiking trail for families to learn about native and invasive plant and animal life in the DuPage and Cook County Illinois region.

    Grants $4,607

  • For this project, we retained an environmental restoration consultant to create a 10-year environmental restoration plan for a 270-acre parcel of land in Cook County, Illinois. Our primary efforts for the next several years will go toward fundraising for, and executing projects related to the restoration plan.

    Expenses $10,886

  • This program provided funding to purchase and release thousands of baitfish to help rebalance the fish population of a rapidly degrading lake in Lemont, Illinois.

    Grants $2,568

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Stephen C Gladwin

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeremie Bacon

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Bartly Loethen

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeanette Virgilio

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
7 April 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202430989349300713

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