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WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER

EIN 84-1352764 NEDERLAND, CO

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Revenue 2024
$3,605,386
Expenses 2024
$840,144

Program services were 58.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 3017

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

FOR 27 YEARS, WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER HAS HELPED CHILDREN AND ADULTS FORGE LIFELONG CONNECTIONS TO NATURE THROUGH CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE OUTDOORS. SPECIALIZING IN MOUNTAIN ECOLOGY, WILD BEAR WELCOMES VISITORS TO ITS HANDS-ON NATURE CENTER AND PROVIDES YEAR-ROUND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER INSPIRES A LIFELONG CONNECTION TO NATURE AND COMMUNITY THROUGH CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE OUTDOORS SINCE 1997. WE ARE KEY PARTNERS IN THE PRESERVATION OF MUD LAKE OPEN SPACE AND IN 2000 WE ORGANIZED THE COMMUNITY TO REMOVE 30 TONS OF TRASH MAKING IT ONE OF THE HEALTHIEST WETLAND HABITATS IN BOULDER COUNTY. WILD BEAR IS NOW IN A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN TO BUILD ITS PERMANENT HOME ON ITS FIVE ACRES AT MUD LAKE AND CARIBOU RANCH OPEN SPACES AND COMPLETED DEVELOPMENT DESIGN OF THE NATURE CENTER.

  • CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS: WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER PROVIDES CHILDREN AGES 5-15 WITH EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL HOURS; AFTER-SCHOOL, DAYS OFF, AND ALL SUMMER. WILD BEAR IS A CCCAP (COLORADO CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM) PROVIDER AND 49% OF PARTICIPANTS ARE IDENTIFIED AS LOW-INCOME AND ACCESS PROGRAMS THROUGH CCCAP AND DONOR SUPPORTED SCHOLARSHIPS. IN 2021-22, WILD BEAR PROVIDED PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN DURING THE SUMMER AND DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR. PROVIDED 240 PROGRAMS TO 1,780 CHILDREN WHO EXPLORED THE INDIAL PEAKS WILDERNESS, MUD LAKE AND CAIBOU RANCH OPEN SPACES, AND OTHER SURROUNDING NATUREAL AREAS. SCHOOL PROGRAMS: WILD BEAR PROVIDES NATURAL SCIENCE PROGRAMS TO SURROUNDIND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AT MUD LAKE OR AT THE NATURE CENTER. PROVIDED 20 SCHOOL GROUP PROGRAMS TO 656 CHILDREN. INTERGENTERATIONAL FAMILTY PROGRAMS AND VISITATION: THE FREE INTERIM NATURE CENTER, LOCATED IN A COMMERCIAL SPACE, IS OPEN WHILE THE OFFICIAL NATURE CENTER IS BEING CONSTRUCTED ENGAGING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES IN HANDS-ON NATURE EXHIBITS. WILD BEAR PROVIDED 59 ADULT/FAMILY PROGRAMS TO 1,541 PARTICIPANTS AND ENJOYED 23,348 GENERAL VISITORS TO THE FREE NATURE CENTER.

    Expenses $487,959 · Revenue $144,501

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.

  • Corky Dineen

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Curtis

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Molly Ganley

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Neal

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Farrell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Kardos

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alex Kosseff

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carrie Pollock

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Weninger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katy Yates

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nathan Smallwood

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $132,000
    From this org
    $132,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jill Dreves

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $121,796
    From this org
    $121,796
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $3,605,386
    Expenses
    $840,144
    Contributions
    $3,435,663
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,410,029
    Expenses
    $880,753
    Contributions
    $3,097,447
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,280,140
    Expenses
    $763,039
    Contributions
    $964,338
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,313,668
    Expenses
    $751,039
    Contributions
    $988,759
    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
    $2,650,648
    Expenses
    $654,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,696,084

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,502,031
    Expenses
    $630,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,582,843

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $765,838
    Expenses
    $416,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $667,092

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,450
    Expenses
    $343,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,871

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,450
    Expenses
    $343,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,871

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $318,961
    Expenses
    $303,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $280,422

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,588
    Expenses
    $278,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $268,103

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $229,512
    Expenses
    $240,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,376

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $227,786
    Expenses
    $220,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $285,518

  • 2009 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $233,651
    Expenses
    $191,712
    Assets (EOY)
    $263,214

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

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

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 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 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.