NATURE FORWARD INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C300

Classification

2000

Street

8940 JONES MILL RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Environmental Education Nature Forwards educational mission is to nurture a lifetime of outdoor discovery, exploration and stewardship of nature for people in the Washington, DC metro region. The Organization connects with individuals and groups of all ages to create a community of people who actively care for the natural world. Through our children and youth programs we reach more than 14,000 children each year with classroom visits, school field trips, afterschool programs, a licensed preschool, and summer camps. Our GreenKids program partners with public schools in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties in Maryland, Loudon County in Virginia and the District of Columbia to foster a culture of environmental stewardship in schools and provide professional development to teachers. Our continuing education programs educate and train more than 2,000 adults annually in natural history and conservation topics. Our outreach programs work to reach families in their communitiesnear where people live, work, and go to schooland connect them to nearby nature through engaging, hands-on activities and trainings. We work with community leaders, partner organizations, and empowered community members.

  Expenses $1,883,582 · Grants $58,519

• Sanctuaries Nature Forward maintains two nature sanctuaries: our headquarters 40-acre Woodend Sanctuary in Chevy Chase, MD and our 68-acre Rust Sanctuary in Leesburg, VA. The Organization provides free public access to our sanctuaries and invites people to enjoy our trails, including a new wheelchair accessible trail at Woodend. The sanctuaries protect critical wildlife habitats in the DC metro region and provide opportunities for people to discover and appreciate the natural world through self-guided and naturalist-led experiences. The sanctuaries educate people of all ages and abilities about environmental stewardship, serve as gathering places for environmental classes and provide a hub for organizations working to preserve the quality of the environment in the Washington, DC area. The Organization actively works to restore the habitats at its nature sanctuaries.

  Expenses $1,572,020

• The Organization has the annual support of more than 1,884 active member households representing approximately 5,000 individuals in the DC metro region. Members participate in environmental education programs, support conservation programs through grassroots advocacy and environmental stewardship, restore habitats, and provide volunteer support in many capacities. Annually, more than 330 people volunteer for the Organization by serving on the Board of Directors and its committees, monitoring the water quality of local streams, maintaining and restoring Nature Forward sanctuaries, leading nature education programs, representing Nature Forward at community events, supporting office functions, and testifying at public hearings.

  Expenses $723,945 · Grants $2,201

• The Nature Forward conservation program works to promote healthy communities for people and wildlife through advocacy and policy across four priority areas in the DC Metro Region: human health & access to nature; biodiversity & habitats; the climate crisis; and sustainable land use. The Organizations conservation outreach brings community members together to collect data on local flora, fauna and stream health and then uses that data to advocate for preservation of our regions special natural places. Each year we train and mobilize thousands of people to take action as monitors, stewards and advocates of our precious environment. Through our advocacy Action Network, more than 6,000 people learn about and take grassroots action with the Organization annually to protect nature in the DC region.

  Expenses $701,505 · Grants $26,811

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,949,818

  Expenses

  $5,662,263

  Contributions

  $3,801,141

  Grants paid

  $88,878

• 2023

  Revenue

  $4,492,927

  Expenses

  $4,682,589

  Contributions

  $2,849,339

  Grants paid

  $61,958

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,600,052

  Expenses

  $4,573,694

  Contributions

  $3,536,113

  Grants paid

  $31,337

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,136,432

  Expenses

  $4,361,179

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,470,867

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,220,387

  Expenses

  $5,755,496

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,859,096

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,770,947

  Expenses

  $3,997,655

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,255,263

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,248,570

  Expenses

  $4,524,033

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,590,460

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,564,742

  Expenses

  $3,783,244

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,130,058

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,025,315

  Expenses

  $3,487,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,120,949

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,263,053

  Expenses

  $3,107,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,028,889

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,189,429

  Expenses

  $2,935,046

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,924,149

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,094,510

  Expenses

  $2,987,330

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,961,452

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,962,203

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,734,966

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE

  $220,000

  2022 · SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

• CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST

  $205,462

  2024 · COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $117,784

  2024 · RESTORE ANACOSTIA HABITAT WITH NATIVE PLANTS

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $86,755

  2023 · RESTORING GRASSLAND & POLLINATOR HABITAT IN MD

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $80,317

  2022 · CHESAPEAKE BAY STEWARDSHIP

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $53,800

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $52,300

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT

  $50,000

  2022 · EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $49,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $30,015

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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