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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by NATURAL HISTORY INSTITUTE.

Totals

Total revenue
$370,062
Total expenses
$425,822
Contributions and grants received
$328,212
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$36,295
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$5,555
Total assets, end of year
$119,227
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$119,227
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$233,669
Management and general expenses
$87,103
Fundraising expenses
$105,050
Program service expenses (Part III)
$233,669

Program services were 54.9% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $328,212

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $500

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Gallery

    total $4,718 · related or exempt $4,718

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Lectures, Hikes & Wrkshps

    total $9,313 · related or exempt $9,313

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Other

    total $430 · related or exempt $430

  • 2d · Program service revenue: Touchstone Tours

    total $21,834 · related or exempt $21,834

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $0

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $5,555

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $5,555 · related or exempt $5,555

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $0

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $89,837 · program services $30,545 · management and general $29,646 · fundraising $29,646

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $169,076 · program services $88,772 · management and general $28,267 · fundraising $52,037

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $32,253 · program services $20,897 · management and general $4,842 · fundraising $6,514

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $19,993 · program services $9,192 · management and general $4,400 · fundraising $6,401

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total -$65 · management and general -$65

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $11,365 · management and general $11,365

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,625 · program services $1,625

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,257 · program services $4,066 · fundraising $1,191

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $50,455 · program services $38,460 · management and general $6,552 · fundraising $5,443

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $2,906 · program services $1,251 · management and general $1,550 · fundraising $105

  • 24a · Other expenses: Touchstone Tours

    total $15,655 · program services $15,655

  • 24b · Other expenses: Lectures and Workshops

    total $8,830 · program services $8,830

  • 24c · Other expenses: Gallery

    total $6,244 · program services $6,244

  • 24d · Other expenses: Communications

    total $4,126 · program services $2,460 · management and general $189 · fundraising $1,477

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,265 · program services $5,672 · management and general $357 · fundraising $2,236

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $80,241 · end of year $56,530

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $6,288 · end of year $8,847

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $53,350 · end of year $53,850

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,109

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $109,109 · end of year $116,352

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $23,661 · end of year $2,875

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the natural world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  • Lectures, Hikes, and Workshops:The largest financial commitment to providing free public programs aimed at fulfilling our mission were lectures, hikes, workshops and a tour. We organized and conducted 17 public talks in our building. We also conducted 9 free webinars. Each webinar and talk were videoed, and the video was hosted free of charge. In 2023 our YouTube channel witnessed phenomenal growth and surpassed the threshold for monetization in November 2023. See additional significant activities in Schedule O ).

    Expenses $233,669 · Revenue $39,511

As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Robert Ellis

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $96,726
    From this org
    $89,838
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,888
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ty Fitzmorris

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23
  • Earl Duque

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Reuben Ellis

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • John Farmer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rebecca Ruffner

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
25 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202432999349301953

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