RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC

EIN 41-1343804 FARIBAULT, MN

Revenue 2024: $823,772
Expenses 2024: $772,897

Program services were 64.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: C600
Classification: 1200
Street: PO BOX 186

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

Mission

RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER'S MISSION IS TO INSPIRE CURIOSITY, RESPECT, AND CARE FOR NATURE.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: THROUGH SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS, OUT OF SCHOOL TIME PROGRAMS, LIFELONG LEARNING ACTIVITIES, AND CONSERVATION WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER SERVES APPROXIMATELY 10,000 PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS AND HOSTS AN ADDITIONAL APPROXIMATELY 100,000 VISITORS TO THE NATURE CENTER, OUTDOOR SPACES, AND TRAIL NETWORK.

Expenses $498,695 · Revenue $116,044
ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER PROTECTS, ENHANCES, AND MAINTAINS OVER 748 ACRES OF CRITICAL HABITAT AND IS HOME TO MULTIPLE THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE. IN 2024, OVER 100 ACRES WERE ENROLLED INTO ACTIVE LAND MANAGEMENT PLANS AND RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER BEGAN WORK ON ACQUIRING 40 ADDITIONAL ACRES OF LAND TO BE ADDED TO THE NATURE CENTER.

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.

DUSTIN DIENST

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
PATRICK MADER

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
KAREN ZELLER

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
ABBY MALMANGER

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
TOM SPOONER

CITY LIASION

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SARAH HAMMER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
NORT JOHNSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
PATRICK SCHAEFER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
COURTNEY CAVALLIER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
GREG SIMMONS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CINDY DESORMEAU

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
IBRAHIM KHALIF

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
TOM DEMATTEO

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
BRAD BOURN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$101,089

From this org

$98,145

From related orgs

$0

Other

$2,944

Hours/week

50

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$823,772

Expenses

$772,897

Contributions

$503,939

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$831,739

Expenses

$540,144

Contributions

$618,353

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$407,415

Expenses

$437,091

Contributions

$199,583

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$823,772	$772,897	$503,939	$0
2023	$831,739	$540,144	$618,353	$0
2022	$407,415	$437,091	$199,583	$0

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

2024 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2022 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2021 · 990

Revenue

$489,539

Expenses

$359,296

Assets (EOY)

$1,528,904
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$543,236

Expenses

$379,627

Assets (EOY)

$1,376,981
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$428,166

Expenses

$367,538

Assets (EOY)

$1,148,588
2018 · 990

Revenue

$426,844

Expenses

$349,487

Assets (EOY)

$1,033,183
2017 · 990

Revenue

$414,480

Expenses

$403,811

Assets (EOY)

$1,045,996
2016 · 990

Revenue

$359,526

Expenses

$374,218

Assets (EOY)

$987,464

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2022	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$489,539	$359,296	$1,528,904
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$543,236	$379,627	$1,376,981
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$428,166	$367,538	$1,148,588
2018	990	$426,844	$349,487	$1,033,183
2017	990	$414,480	$403,811	$1,045,996
2016	990	$359,526	$374,218	$987,464

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

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

$32,463

2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

$32,000

2023 RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER LITTLE SPROUTS: BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH NATURE / OUTDOOR DIVERSITY INITIATIVES
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION

$26,200

2022 OUTDOOR DIVERSITY INITIATIVE / RIVER BEND NATURE CENTER LITTLE SPROUTS: BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH NATURE
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

$10,000

2023 Legacy Grant for Historical Interpretation Plan for River Bend Nature Center
FARIBAULT FOUNDATION INC

$10,000

2024 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.