Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by AUDUBON SOCIETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,784,209
- Total expenses
- $3,038,597
- Contributions and grants received
- $2,846,378
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $479,243
- Investment income
- $378,236
- Other revenue
- $80,352
- Total assets, end of year
- $24,159,269
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,009,132
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $23,150,137
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $1,814,852
- Management and general expenses
- $833,503
- Fundraising expenses
- $390,242
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $1,814,852
Program services were 59.7% 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.
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1b · Membership dues
$141,013
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,705,365
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$884,391
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2a · Program service revenue: Programs and events
total $352,464 · related or exempt $352,464
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2b · Program service revenue: Conservation contracts
total $126,779 · related or exempt $126,779
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3 · Investment income
total $295,165 · excluded $295,165
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6a · Gross rents
real property $116,410
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6b · Less rental expenses
real property $65,977
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $50,433
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $50,433 · unrelated business $40,466 · excluded $9,967
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $634,641
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $551,570
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $83,071
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $83,071 · excluded $83,071
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$58,210
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$28,291
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $29,919 · related or exempt $29,919
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $132,820 · program services $85,630 · management and general $29,370 · fundraising $17,820
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,371,083 · program services $899,452 · management and general $274,615 · fundraising $197,016
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $17,699 · program services $10,448 · management and general $4,986 · fundraising $2,265
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $97,928 · program services $52,619 · management and general $33,848 · fundraising $11,461
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $114,797 · program services $76,401 · management and general $22,743 · fundraising $15,653
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11b · Fees: legal
total $3,589 · management and general $3,589
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $27,131 · management and general $27,131
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $19,638 · management and general $19,638
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $78,090 · fundraising $78,090
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $70,222 · management and general $70,222
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11g · Fees: other
total $227,653 · program services $118,530 · management and general $109,123
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $8,051 · program services $4,051 · management and general $1,286 · fundraising $2,714
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13 · Office expenses
total $135,611 · program services $67,791 · management and general $30,365 · fundraising $37,455
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14 · Information technology
total $38,994 · program services $14,396 · management and general $9,545 · fundraising $15,053
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16 · Occupancy
total $197,267 · program services $195,441 · management and general $1,704 · fundraising $122
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17 · Travel
total $20,944 · program services $18,178 · management and general $690 · fundraising $2,076
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $12,527 · program services $4,089 · management and general $6,098 · fundraising $2,340
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20 · Interest
total $32,431 · management and general $32,431
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $223,690 · program services $223,690
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23 · Insurance
total $80,342 · program services $4,371 · management and general $74,577 · fundraising $1,394
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24a · Other expenses: Beneficiary payments
total $74,119 · management and general $74,119
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24b · Other expenses: Conservation programs
total $37,202 · program services $29,868 · management and general $551 · fundraising $6,783
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24c · Other expenses: Provision for bad debt
total $9,897 · program services $9,897
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24d · Other expenses: Provision for UBI tax
total $6,872 · management and general $6,872
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $609,095 · end of year $367,100
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $2,583,789 · end of year $2,787,675
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $311,883 · end of year $212,871
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $100,276 · end of year $109,300
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $50,373 · end of year $36,853
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $63,775 · end of year $64,302
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$15,678,944
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$3,727,738
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $11,968,516 · end of year $11,951,206
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $2,161,298 · end of year $1,709,432
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $1,331,000 · end of year $2,201,000
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $8,611 · end of year $5,278
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $3,360,579 · end of year $4,714,252
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $144,680 · end of year $181,479
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $195,028 · end of year $217,404
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $637,512 · end of year $610,249
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $4,175,059 · end of year $3,616,535
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $17,396,916 · end of year $19,533,602
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Our mission is to protect New Hampshire's natural environment for wildlife and people. We accomplish this by: 1) Environmental Education, 2) Conservation Science, 3) Environmental Policy and 4) Land Management and Stewardship.We fulfill this mission by setting and achieving annual goals in environmental education, conservation science, environmental policy and land management on our wildlife sanctuaries throughout New Hampshire.Our science research informs our statewide education programs in grades K to 12 in NH public and private schools and for people of all ages at our centers and sanctuaries. We publish our research for the benefit of our members, both New Hampshire state and federal agencies, other environmental nonprofit partners and the general public to increase awareness of the importance of bird and other wildlife in New Hampshire.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Our mission is to protect New Hampshire's natural environment for wildlife and people.
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NH Audubon operates three nature centers: McLane (Concord), Massabesic (Auburn), and Paradise Point (Hebron). These centers serve as the focal points for the majority of our environmental education and outreach programming. Visitors can experience a variety of interactive nature displays along with live animal exhibits. These experiences are aimed at increasing awareness and understanding about New Hampshire's flora and fauna while highlighting the role humans play in protecting them. Surrounding the Centers are walking trails for the public to enjoy.Our Nature Centers host a wide variety of onsite educational programming that includes preschool classes, home school classes, both guided and self-guided nature walks, professional development opportunities for K-through-12 teachers, and educational lectures. Our programming annually reaches over 40,000 adults and children.As part of NH Audubon's outreach, each Center offers offsite programming to schools, camps, and other organizations throughout the state, often which use live animals including raptors, amphibians, and reptiles. Our naturalists deliver over 650 school programs each year, facilitating over 21,000 student experiences.Our school programs are aligned with the current New Hampshire state science frameworks, which augment traditional classroom instruction by providing hands-on experimental and experiential learning opportunities. Additionally, the MacLane and Massabesic Centers operate nature-based school vacation and summer camps, which annually host over 300 children ranging from 4 to 15 years of age.
Expenses $337,831 · Revenue $382,383
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NH Audubon owns and manages a variety of properties that help preserve and protect the natural beauty, health, and habitat of its community. The Organization's sanctuaries protect several unique natural communities that include rare plants, birds, mammals, pollinators and other threatened natural wildlife. NH Audubon's land stewardship covers every county in New Hampshire, with habitats ranging from northern peat bogs to coastal salt marshes, and from high elevation spruce forests to Appalachian oak-hickory forests, with much more in between.For example, the Organization works to protect:- 39 separate wildlife sanctuaries, which amount to nearly 7,500 acres of protected land; - 4 properties that are maintained under a Memoranda of Understanding which dictates that, of these lands, at least 1,250 acres is to be monitored and managed for their conservation and environmental values-An additional 29 land easements across nearly 2,500 acres. In 31 of these properties, there are trail systems totaling 75 miles of maintained trails. Many sanctuaries are heavily visited for environmental education and low impact recreational uses. In particular, Pondicherry, Ponemah Bog, Massabesic, Silk Farm, Paradise Point, and Willard Pond Wildlife Sanctuaries are visited annually by more than 20,000 individuals.
Expenses $899,740 · Revenue $126,779
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NH Audubon is active in conservation science and environmental policy issues. Our conservation science work includes research, monitoring, and management of New Hampshire's wildlife, with a particular focus species of concern. While many of our projects do focus on birds, our work goes well beyond avian species. For example, recent studies performed or supported by NH Audubon have included bats, dragonflies, butterflies, and turtles. We are active in helping to implement the exciting MOTUS tracking system, with our partners in the northeast, which provides a system to monitor migration patterns for a variety of aerial wildlife, ranging from birds to bats to butterflies along with other wildlife species.We also engage a large cadre of citizen scientists in our work. Approximately 1,783 volunteers contribute over 11,600 hours annually.NH Audubon's advocacy work promotes science-based public policy at national, state, and local levels. An environmental policy and advocacy team composed of both staff and volunteers determines our positions on proposed legislation and delivers testimony at hearings. Staff members represent the organization in various state policy working groups and technical committees, and they also participate in state and regional coalitions. NH Audubon collaborates with other nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies, academic institutions, municipalities, and businesses to advance conservation causes. We respect our collaborators' perspectives while advocating the best possible environmental outcomes.
Expenses $577,281
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Michael Andrews
Trustee (start 12/2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Holly Bauer
Trustee (start 12/2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Alexandra Breed
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Michael Cohen
Trustee (start 3/2025)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Paul Doscher
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Bill Dumont
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Susan Goodwin
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Tom Lee
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Jason Morse
Trustee (end 10/2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Paul Nickerson
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Debbie Stanley
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
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Nisa Marks
Chair (end 1/2025)/Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Doris Jurisson
Trustee (eff 7/24)/Chair (eff 1/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Bill Deal
Trustee/Vice Chair (start 9/2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Charlie Nims
VC (end 9/24)/Treasurer (eff 3/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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David Silk
Treasurer (end 3/2025)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Susan Martin
Secretary (end 9/2024)/Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Sylvia Bates
Trustee/Secretary (start 9/2024)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4.5
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Douglas Bechtel
President
- Total calculated
- $132,821
- From this org
- $115,654
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $17,167
- Hours/week
- 40
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.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Related corporations and trusts
Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.
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Pooled Income Fund - Split Interest Trust
T · Charitable Trust · NH · 100% owned · share of income $41,249 · share of assets $1,256,416
Directly controlled by Audubon Society of New Hampshire
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 16 December 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202503579349301100
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