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MCLEAN GAME REFUGE INC

EIN 26-1960261 SIMSBURY, CT

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Revenue 2024
$1,090,985
Expenses 2024
$353,605

Program services were 98.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
75 GREAT POND RD

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MCLEAN GAME REFUGE IS A NATURE PRESERVE OF OVER 4,400 ACRES IN THE TOWNS OF GRANBY, SIMSBURY, AND CANTON, CONNECTICUT. THIS PRESERVE MANAGES ONE OF THE PUBLIC AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES SET FORTH IN THE WILL OF SENATOR GEORGE P. MCLEAN. THE REFUGE IS OPEN YEAR-ROUND TO THE PUBLIC FOR NATURE STUDY AND RECREATION WITHOUT CHARGE. IT IS RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AS A NATIONAL NATURE AREA. THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDES AN EMPHASIS ON CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MCLEAN GAME REFUGE IS A NATURE PRESERVE OF OVER 4,400 ACRES (SEE SCH O) IN THE TOWNS OF GRANBY, SIMSBURY, AND CANTON, CONNECTICUT. THIS PRESERVE MANAGES ONE OF THE PUBLIC AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES SET FORTH IN THE WILL OF SENATOR GEORGE P. MCLEAN. THE REFUGE IS OPEN YEAR-ROUND TO THE PUBLIC FOR NATURE STUDY AND RECREATION WITHOUT CHARGE. IT IS RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AS A NATIONAL NATURE AREA. THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDES AN EMPHASIS ON CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION.

  • THE MCLEAN GAME REFUGE IS A NATURE PRESERVE OF OVER 4,400 ACRES IN THE TOWNS OF GRANBY, SIMSBURY, AND CANTON, CONNECTICUT. THIS PRESERVE MANAGES ONE OF THE PUBLIC AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES SET FORTH IN THE WILL OF SENATOR GEORGE P. MCLEAN. THE REFUGE IS OPEN YEAR-ROUND TO THE PUBLIC FOR NATURE STUDY AND RECREATION WITHOUT CHARGE. IT IS RECOGNIZED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AS A NATIONAL NATURE AREA. THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION INCLUDES AN EMPHASIS ON CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION.

    Expenses $348,898

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.

  • Michael Paine

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 7 related
  • Kathleen Alsgaard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 4 related
  • James Cox-Chapman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 3.5 related
  • Jared Grise

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 5.5 related
  • Denis Horrigan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 4 related
  • Linda Schofield

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 4.5 related
  • Philip Schulz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 5 related
  • Mark Wetzel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 4 related
  • Wayne Paulekas

    DIRECTOR (FROM 3/2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 1.5 related
  • Lisa Clark

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $385,165
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $302,028
    Other
    $83,137
    Hours/week
    2.5 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $273,187 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $28,841 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $33,408 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $49,729 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $385,165 related
  • Carol Barno

    VP OF FINANCE AND CFO (TO 12/24)

    Total calculated
    $301,877
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $256,695
    Other
    $45,182
    Hours/week
    2.5 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $234,164 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $22,531 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $26,359 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,823 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $301,877 related
  • Paula Depinto

    VP OF FINANCE AND CFO (FROM 1/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5 + 37.5 related

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,090,985
    Expenses
    $353,605
    Contributions
    $1,002,058
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $428,079
    Expenses
    $371,159
    Contributions
    $411,498
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $363,227
    Expenses
    $369,861
    Contributions
    $342,335
    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
    $629,700
    Expenses
    $299,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,297,632
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,572
    Expenses
    $313,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,346,872
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $275,171
    Expenses
    $263,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,217,369
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $314,618
    Expenses
    $233,403
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,128,006
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $295,458
    Expenses
    $259,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,037,099
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $273,146
    Expenses
    $243,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,961,650
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $291,523
    Expenses
    $221,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,874,314
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $331,446
    Expenses
    $227,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,793,074
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $701,142
    Expenses
    $215,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,693,895
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $200,415
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,207,333

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

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • MCLEAN FUND

    501(C)(3) · CHARITABLE TRUST · CT

  • MCLEAN AFFILIATES INC

    501(C)(3) · PROVIDE CARE, MAINTENANCE, WELFARE · CT · controlled entity

Declared as related by

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 SO.

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