NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C600

Classification

1200

Street

176 WATER COMPANY 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).

Mission and programs · 2025

• The Ned Smith Center provides free, year-round public access to its facilities, welcoming approximately 12,000 visitors to its outdoor areas and 2,500 to its art galleries and exhibition openings in 2025. Amenities include three art galleries, 535 acres of scenic trails, creek access, a childrens play and picnic area, bird feeding stations, pollinator gardens, an outdoor patio, deck, and amphitheater, and a picturesque bridge. These spaces advance the Centers mission by offering meaningful connections to nature and the arts for visitors of all ages.

  Expenses $451,048 · Revenue $161,076

• The Ned Smith Centers educational programming engages more than 3,000 participants with nature and inspires curiosity and appreciation for the natural world. In 2025, the Centers educational programs reached more than 2,000 students across Dauphin County and surrounding areas through on- and off-site environmental education programs. In addition to school-based programs designed to support classroom learning, the Center offered summer nature and arts camps to nearly 180 youth, engaged more than 70 families through free monthly preschool story times, and educated more than 100 participants through free discovery series workshops for all ages.

  Expenses $214,821 · Revenue $69,063

• Special nature and arts events at the Ned Smith Center attracted more than 5,000 attendees in 2025, including 2,700 at the annual Nature & Arts Festival held at MYO Park in Millersburg and 2,300 at indoor and outdoor concerts and free youth ballet and Shakespeare performances held in the Centers Ned Smith Gallery and DeSoto Amphitheater for the Performing Arts. These events advance our mission by fostering community engagement, celebrating the connection between nature and the arts, and providing accessible cultural experiences for audiences of all ages.

  Expenses $142,979 · Revenue $88,106

• NSCNA continued its 29th year of northern saw-whet owl banding at three long-term sites in Pennsylvania, banding 326 saw-what owls and contributing to long-term research on changing migration and population patterns. The Center also advanced Project SNOWstorm, supporting analysis of movement data from more than 40 snowy owls to better understand arctic breeding, movement, and conservation. More than 60 volunteers contributed 3,100 hours to these research efforts.

  Expenses $69,860 · Revenue $28,167

• Promote an awareness of and appreciation for the art of Ned Smith and other wildlife artists by presenting an annual art auction.

  Expenses $7,565 · Revenue $24,946

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $684,226

  Expenses

  $1,267,894

  Contributions

  $400,358

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $938,915

  Expenses

  $1,297,759

  Contributions

  $730,731

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $479,593

  Expenses

  $1,184,091

  Contributions

  $346,183

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $884,084

  Expenses

  $1,029,522

  Contributions

  $904,049

  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

  $1,292,102

  Expenses

  $885,751

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,836,202

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $504,047

  Expenses

  $843,716

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,373,258

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $637,668

  Expenses

  $952,010

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,380,904

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $859,971

  Expenses

  $1,069,078

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,821,810

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $582,192

  Expenses

  $973,870

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,592,800

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $779,196

  Expenses

  $834,498

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,647,167

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $535,991

  Expenses

  $855,599

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,293,115

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $963,558

  Expenses

  $878,801

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,000,505

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,388,740

  Expenses

  $798,226

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,703,707

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $848,550

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,758,138

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

• HAROLD N & THELMA LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST

  $135,599

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• HAROLD N & THELMA LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST

  $134,814

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• HAROLD N & THELMA LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST

  $134,130

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $51,300

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES

  $27,051

  2025 · ARTS, HUMANITIES

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $21,316

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES

  $20,516

  2024 · ARTS, HUMANITIES

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $13,159

  2023

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $12,498

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES

  $10,136

  2023 · ARTS, HUMANITIES

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

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