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WILDLIFE SCIENCE CENTER

EIN 41-1678264 STACY, MN

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Revenue 2024
$310,284
Expenses 2024
$468,602

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B50Z
Classification
1000
Street
22830 SUNRISE RD NE

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

TO SERVE AS AN EDUCATONAL RESOURCE FOR ALL AGES; BY: PROVIDING EXPOSURE TO WILD ANIMALS AND THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE GENERATED FOR THEIR CONVERSATION; TO ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING OF WILD ANIMAL BIOLOGY THROUGH LONG-TERM, HUMANE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ON CAPTIVE POPULATIONS, THUS

  • EDUCATION: THE WILDLIFE SCIENCE CENTER PROVIDED PROGRAMS FOR OVER 15,000 VISITORS. PROGRAMS ARE PROVIDED FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, NON-SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS AND SCHOOL GROUPS AGES PRE-K THROUGH 12 AND POST SECONDARY. EVERY WILDLIFE SCIENCE CENTER EDUCATION PROGRAM IS ALIGNED WITH NATIONAL AND STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS, BUT THE FOCUS OF PRESENTATION DOES NOT INVOLVE SCIENCE. THE SUBJECT OF WOLVES AND WILDLIFE LENDS ITSELF TO DISCUSSIONS OF HISTORY, CULTURE, MATHMATICS, LITERATURE, ART, AND OTHER TOPICS. CLOSE-UP OBSERVATION OF OUR WILDLIFE AFFORDS UNIQUE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FROM COLOR AND SIZE VARIATION TO A MORE IN-DEPTH LOOK AT ADAPTATIONS, BEHAVIORS, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION. TRAINING: WILDLIFE SCIENCE CENTER CONTINUED A LONG TRADITION OF PROVIDING HANDS-ON TRAINING TO WILD LIFE PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS USING OUR REAL WOLVES AND BEARS. RESEARCH: BIOLOGISTS HAVE SPENT TIME RESEARCHING ANIMALS IN NATURAL HABITAT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY WOLF AND BEAR POPULATIONS.

    Expenses $403,661 · Revenue $310,284

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.

  • Peggy Callahan

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50
  • Mark Beckel

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Solem

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jay Christianson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amy Piersak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nathan Lance

    DIRECTOR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $310,284
    Expenses
    $468,602
    Contributions
    $127,718
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $462,983
    Expenses
    $523,910
    Contributions
    $339,345
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $398,104
    Expenses
    $641,255
    Contributions
    $213,134
    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
    $1,415,392
    Expenses
    $923,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,424,558
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,290,270
    Expenses
    $479,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,992,022
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $740,917
    Expenses
    $430,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,225,513
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $390,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $813,209
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $372,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $922,872
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $374,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $836,669

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.

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.