VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C600

Classification

2000

Street

PO BOX 1281

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

• THE VINS NATURE CENTER, WHICH IS 47 ACRES OF RIVERSIDE FOREST AND MEADOW JUST UPSTREAM OF THE QUECHEE GORGE, DREW A RECORD 84,115 VISITORS DURING FY25. SINCE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANOPY WALK IN 2019, THE NUMBER OF VISITORS HAS ROUGHLY DOUBLED. ATTENDANCE AT ON-SITE EDUCATION EVENTS HAS SIMILARLY INCREASED. OTHER RECENT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE NATURE CENTER INCLUDE A SONGBIRD AVIARY AND ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND TO GO ALONG WITH THE RAPTOR ENCLOSURES AND OTHER EXHIBITS, THE NATURE STORE, AND THE NETWORK OF NATURE TRAILS COVERING THE PROPERTY. UPDATES TO THE OUTDOOR PAVILION, OUTDOOR CLASSROOM, AND INDOOR CLASSROOM HAVE ALSO MADE THE NATURE CENTER A MORE ATTRACTIVE DESTINATION FOR PRIVATE EVENTS SUCH AS BIRD ENCOUNTERS AND BIRTHDAY PARTIES.

  Expenses $1,169,222 · Revenue $1,323,432

• EDUCATION: IN FY25, OUR EDUCATORS REACHED 96,204 PARTICIPANTS, INCLUDING THOSE IMPACTED BY VINS SCHOOL PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH, NATURE CAMP, AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS, AND VISITS TO THE NATURE CENTER. MANY OF THESE INVOLVED REPEAT INTERACTIONS RELATED TO SCHOOL CURRICULA OR CAMP, IMPROVING THE LIKELIHOOD OF A LONG-TERM EDUCATIONAL IMPACT. IN ADDITION, RESEARCH PROJECTS INVOLVING AMERICAN KESTRELS, BROADWING HAWKS, NATIVE CRAYFISH, MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, AND OTHER SPECIES IMPACTED LANDOWNERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

  Expenses $803,975 · Revenue $563,184

• WILD BIRD REHABILITATION: MANY PEOPLE IN NEW ENGLAND KNOW VINS FOR ITS EXPERTISE IN REHABILITATING ORPHANED AND INJURED WILD BIRDS. OUR REHABILITATORS TREATED OVER A THOUSAND BIRDS IN FY25, AND THE FACILITY CAN ACCOMMODATE ABOUT 150 BIRDS AT ANY ONE TIME. THE RECENT GROWTH IN PATIENT INTAKES, WHICH HAS DOUBLED IN SIX YEARS, ROUGHLY TRACKS WITH THE INCREASE IN HUMAN VISITORS TO VINS. OUR RELEASE RATE OF 4O% IS RELATIVELY HIGH FOR REHABILITATION CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES. BESIDES HEALING AND RELEASING BIRDS, OUR REHABILITATION STAFF ALSO COUNSELS THE PUBLIC BY PHONE AND HELP TO CARE FOR THE FULL-TIME RESIDENT RAPTORS, SONGBIRDS, AND REPTILES THAT WE HOLD ON EXHIBIT.

  Expenses $393,486 · Revenue $34,056

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $3,018,889

  Expenses

  $3,164,646

  Contributions

  $845,160

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,099,630

  Expenses

  $2,996,805

  Contributions

  $1,226,014

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,537,584

  Expenses

  $2,719,319

  Contributions

  $882,164

  Grants paid

  $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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,207,925

  Expenses

  $2,344,856

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,024,599

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,335,383

  Expenses

  $2,009,400

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,043,376

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,794,894

  Expenses

  $1,874,263

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,985,698

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,877,776

  Expenses

  $1,635,119

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,115,371

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,650,011

  Expenses

  $1,508,847

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,971,808

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,945,994

  Expenses

  $1,479,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,776,762

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,945,994

  Expenses

  $1,479,008

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,776,762

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,364,871

  Expenses

  $1,415,108

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,350,513

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,554,145

  Expenses

  $1,327,607

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,378,365

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,472,203

  Expenses

  $1,442,829

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,365,638

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

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $73,500

  2023 · For general support, place-based ecology education

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $30,000

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

• VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $27,908

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,441

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• HYPERTHERM HOPE FOUNDATION INC

  $24,500

  2023 · SEE PART IV

• HYPERTHERM HOPE FOUNDATION INC

  $24,500

  2024 · SEE PART IV

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $23,350

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $22,500

  2022 · To support place-based ecology education programming and general support

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $18,365

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $13,000

  2024 · For general support, place-based ecology education

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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