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FRIENDS OF THE WELTY ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC

EIN 39-1951248 BELOIT, WI

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Revenue 2024
$315,094
Expenses 2024
$232,142

Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C50
Classification
1000
Street
1201 BIG HILL COURT

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

Our mission is to provide leadership in environmental education by equitably engaging the diverse residents of the Stateline region with activities that foster an appreciation of nature & promote environmental stewardship

  • Weltys main source of program revenue and expenses are field trips for area school districts (Beloit, Turner, Janesville, Milton), preschool programs (Even Start, Head Start, Community Kids) and private and charter school groups(The Lincoln Academy,Rock Co.Montessouri). We also provide programing for service organizations (YMCA, Community Action) funded by local granting agencies (Stateline Community Foundation. Hendricks Family Foundation, Ecolab Foundation). Most of these trips happen at Big Hill Park, where the Welty Center is located, but Welty also leads after school programs that take place in school building (SDBs Todd Elementary). Participants: 7,112

    Expenses $68,308 · Grants $2,285 · Revenue $26,970

  • Welty offers nature-themed public programs at its Big Hill Park location and other sites in the Stateline Area (Nature at the Confluence, Nygren Wetlands, Beckman Mill County Park) for individuals & families. Welty also runs day camps & no-school days during the school year, and weekly during the summer. Thanks to a National Science Foundation GEOPAths grant, Welty hosted high school interns for a semester-long experience, offered summer career exploration camps, and ran a summer day camp for autistic teenagers. Participation: 1,513

    Expenses $68,308 · Grants $10,906 · Revenue $35,516

  • Welty leads environmental education programs on-request for service organizations (Rock Co.Conservationists, Skype-a-Scientist,YWCA) and area libraries. Welty sponsored an intern who brought programs to area service providers funded by a donation from a Welty donor. WElty also host table activities at various community days, farmers markets, and special school expos. Participants: 704

    Expenses $68,308 · Revenue $9,989

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.

  • Mark Spreitzer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kirk Berridge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anthony Bosco

    Internal Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Elizabeth Brewer

    External Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kevin Larson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Jane Fossum

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Doug Elfstrom

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cindy Laube

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Harry Wiersgalla

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dave Bendlin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kaelyb Lokrantz

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nick Giefer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brenda Plakans

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $49,490
    From this org
    $49,490
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30
  • Marc Kinneman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lynn Vollbrecht

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leslie Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $315,094
    Expenses
    $232,142
    Contributions
    $154,036
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $424,763
    Expenses
    $181,471
    Contributions
    $272,204
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $192,008
    Expenses
    $312,996
    Contributions
    $117,991
    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
    $305,519
    Expenses
    $124,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $737,808
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $261,567
    Expenses
    $106,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $556,325
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,051
    Expenses
    $117,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,078
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $296,350
    Expenses
    $133,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $297,077
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $76,913
    Expenses
    $90,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $134,473
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $67,125
    Expenses
    $68,307
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,161
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $62,283
    Expenses
    $72,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $147,956

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 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 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.