Totals
- Total revenue
- $130,461
- Total expenses
- $158,280
- Contributions and grants received
- $127,154
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- $750
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $522
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- not reported
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $2,035
- Total assets, end of year
- $216,788
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $115
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $216,673
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $142,452
Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
The mission of Nearby Nature Milwaukee is to support promote and celebrate environmentalism in Milwaukee communities of color. We work to renew natural stress in those communities and provide access for all.
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Nearby Nature provides outdoor recreational experiences that include hiking biking and paddling. We also provide volunteer service opportunities for neighborhood residents and allies to support renewal and repair of natural areas. This effort includes the maintenance of trails and prairie restoration in urban wild areas. As part of this stewardship we have been conducting scientific wildlife habitat research that includes monitoring of birds bats snakes toads and large mammals.
Expenses $119,452
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Nearby Nature provided an environmental educator to work in predominantly Black schools in our target area to supplement environmental science education in those schools and provide outdoor experiences through field trips to nearby natural areas. This effort also includes a summer internship program focused on green career exploration
Expenses $23,000
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Sierra Taliaferro
Board President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Dan Buckler
Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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David Thomas
Board Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Karen Samelson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Dennis Grzezinski
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Wyman Winston
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 11 June 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611629349200301
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