- 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
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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.
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Peggy CallahanPEGGY CALLAHAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $60,000
- From this org
- $60,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
-
Mark BeckelMARK BECKEL
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
John SolemJOHN SOLEM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Jim AndersonJIM ANDERSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Jay ChristiansonJAY CHRISTIANSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Amy PiersakAMY PIERSAK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Nathan LanceNATHAN 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
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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
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2022 UNRESTRICTED
-
2023
-
$5,552
2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$0
2024 Food donation
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.