BLACK HILLS PARKS AND FORESTS ASSOCIATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N32

Classification

2000

Street

26611 US HIGHWAY 385

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

• See Schedule OSales - BHPFA conducts specialty retail sales at 16 partner outlets as well as online and event sales. All products sold provide an educational or interpretive component and help area visitors take their experience beyond park and forest boundaries. Store sales are used to calculate the amount of aid funding provided to our partners. In FY2025, total store, web and outside sales were up 30% compared to the previous year, however, total expenses were up 31%, showing a net 1% down. $96,444 was allocated to the 7 Partners for as aid to parks/forests. Aid expenditures included Jr. Ranger books and badges, interns & seasonal staff, program supplies, and exhibit costs, just to name a few. In addition to the traditional store sales, BHPFA sells items with a donation component for specific partner interpretive initiatives. In May 2024, we entered into an NPS agreement allowing BHPFA to collect donation accounts between our 7 public land partners and in FY2025 generated and managed close to $241,272. Events/Donations/Programs - BHPFA offered more fee based educational programs and events in FY2025, resulting in close to $2,000 worth of program fee generation. We also expanded our membership and donation programs. Membership revenue increased significantly thanks to a grant that provided a more streamlined sign up experience at our store locations. We also invested in a new platform that automatically enrolls members for automatic renewal. Both new and renewing member rates over doubled membership revenue from the previous year. Donations increased slightly year over year with a rise in unsolicited donations, BHPFA grant funding to support development of our membership program, seed funding for a local group, and create a public awareness campaign around public land archaeological sites.Fee based education programs did not garner a significant amount of funding, but BHPFA was able to partner with like minded organizations and will be able to leverage those relationship and resources for future programming revenue.BHPFA purchased a building in January 2025 and moved all warehouse operations into the building in March. The added expense of building operations significantly contributed to the 31% increase in expenses year over year.

  Expenses $613,641 · Revenue $827,220

• Program aid and support to National Parks Service.

  Expenses $191,882 · Grants $146,857

• Program aid and support to USDA Forest Service.

  Expenses $29,348 · Grants $5,290

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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

  $959,392

  Expenses

  $1,239,088

  Contributions

  $103,696

  Grants paid

  $152,147

• 2023

  Revenue

  $787,261

  Expenses

  $966,620

  Contributions

  $133,156

  Grants paid

  $119,712

• 2022

  Revenue

  $905,352

  Expenses

  $860,772

  Contributions

  $105,589

  Grants paid

  $141,901

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

  $998,252

  Expenses

  $803,771

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,534,998

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,196,335

  Expenses

  $535,617

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,297,503

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $208,781

  Expenses

  $351,280

  Assets (EOY)

  $644,582

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $483,396

  Expenses

  $471,749

  Assets (EOY)

  $744,371

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $507,724

  Expenses

  $470,956

  Assets (EOY)

  $728,393

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $332,265

  Expenses

  $281,580

  Assets (EOY)

  $535,414

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $309,453

  Expenses

  $261,434

  Assets (EOY)

  $441,983

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $280,415

  Assets (EOY)

  $421,075

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $294,462

  Assets (EOY)

  $395,061

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $286,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $391,140

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

• Dept of Interior NPS

  $146,857

  2024 · Support National Park Service

• DEPT OF INTERIOR NPS

  $137,075

  2022 · SUPPORT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

• DEPT OF INTERIOR NPS

  $112,622

  2023 · SUPPORT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

• USDA

  $7,090

  2023 · SUPPORT THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE

• USDA

  $5,290

  2024 · Support the National Forest Service

• USDA

  $4,826

  2022 · SUPPORT THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $21,000

  2024 · CONNECT

• NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION

  $20,750

  2023 · Connect

• MONGOL ECOLOGY CENTER

  $7,500

  2023 · To support our Rally for Rangers programs within the USA.

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