- 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
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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
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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
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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.
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Mark Spreitzer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kirk Berridge
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Anthony Bosco
Internal Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Elizabeth Brewer
External Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Kevin Larson
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Jane Fossum
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Doug Elfstrom
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cindy Laube
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Harry Wiersgalla
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dave Bendlin
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kaelyb Lokrantz
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Nick Giefer
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brenda Plakans
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $49,490
- From this org
- $49,490
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Marc Kinneman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lynn Vollbrecht
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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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
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2024
- Revenue
- $315,094
- Expenses
- $232,142
- Contributions
- $154,036
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $424,763
- Expenses
- $181,471
- Contributions
- $272,204
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $305,519
- Expenses
- $124,988
- Assets (EOY)
- $737,808
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $261,567
- Expenses
- $106,955
- Assets (EOY)
- $556,325
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $223,051
- Expenses
- $117,337
- Assets (EOY)
- $402,078
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $296,350
- Expenses
- $133,790
- Assets (EOY)
- $297,077
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2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $76,913
- Expenses
- $90,157
- Assets (EOY)
- $134,473
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2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $67,125
- Expenses
- $68,307
- Assets (EOY)
- $147,161
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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
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2022 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 ANIMAL & ENVIRONMENTAL
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2024 ANIMAL & ENVIRONMENTAL
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$1,000
2023 ENVIRONMENT
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.