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NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC

EIN 76-0830759 MONTPELIER, VT

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Revenue 2023
$1,315,243
Expenses 2023
$1,405,691

Program services were 76.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C116
Classification
1000
Street
713 ELM ST

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 · 2023

Mission

CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH THE NATURAL WORLD

  • EDUCATION PROGRAMS: NBNC SERVES MORE THAN 2,000 PEOPLE ANNUALLY THROUGH 7+ EDUCATION PROGRAM AREAS INCLUDING FOREST PRESCHOOL; SUMMER NATURE CAMPS AND AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS; A NATURE PLAYGROUP; ECO (EDUCATING CHILDREN OUTDOORS, A STANDARDS-BASED PROGRAM IN COLLABORATION WITH 15 AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND A HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM); AND ECO EDUCATOR INSTITUTES (GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES FOR TEACHERS). WE EMPHASIZE HANDS-ON EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION, OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT AND FROM NATURE, FOSTERING A SENSE OF A PLACE AND STEWARDSHIP IN OUR LOCAL VERMONT COMMUNITIES, AND DEVELOPING LASTING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD.

    Expenses $593,964 · Grants $18,160 · Revenue $480,839

  • NATURAL HISTORY AND COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROGRAMS: MORE THAN 3,000 PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN OUR NATURAL HISTORY AND COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROGRAMS ANNUALLY, INCLUDING A SUMMER FESTIVAL FOR ALL AGES; A MID-WINTER PRESENTATION SERIES; BIODIVERSITY UNIVERSITY CLASSES; A VERMONT MASTER NATURALIST PROGRAM; AND NUMEROUS OTHER FIELD TRIPS AND ADVENTURES IN VERMONT AND BEYOND, INCLUDING INTERNATIONALLY. COMMUNITY SCIENCE PROGRAMS INCLUDE SAW-WHET OWL BANDING, MUSHROOM MAPPING, AND AMPHIBIAN MONITORING, IN WHICH VOLUNTEERS COLLECT DATA WHILE RESCUING THOUSANDS OF AMPHIBIANS AT ROAD CROSSINGS. WE THEN COLLABORATE WITH VERMONT AGENCIES TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING WITH STATISTICAL MODELING OF ANNUAL AMPHIBIAN MOVEMENTS.

    Expenses $261,838 · Grants $8,070 · Revenue $226,401

  • VISITOR EXPERIENCE AND OUTREACH: ANNUALLY 17,000+ PEOPLE ENJOY OUR FLOODPLAIN LANDSCAPE AND TRAILS, WHICH ARE ALWAYS FREE AND OPEN. OUR UNIVERSAL ACCESS TRAIL MEETS ADA STANDARDS AND OUR NATURE CONNECTION TRAIL FOSTERS A DEEPER ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LAND. NBNC SERVES AS A HUB FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION BY WALKERS, JOGGERS, SKIERS, SNOWSHOERS, BIKERS, AND SWIMMERS, AND CONNECTS TO MONTPELIER'S TWO LARGEST CITY PARKS. NBNC IS HOME TO A COMMUNITY GARDEN, A COMMUNITY ORCHARD, AND A NEW CONSERVATION NURSERY. OUR BUILDING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FIVE DAYS/WEEK AND FEATURES AQUARIUMS, ROTATING NATURAL HISTORY AND ART GALLERY DISPLAYS, AND A WIDELY USED COMMUNITY ROOM.

    Expenses $203,458 · Grants $6,270 · Revenue $2,805

  • OTHER

    Expenses $16,227 · Grants $500 · Revenue $7,209

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Naomi Heindel

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $75,427
    From this org
    $67,596
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,831
    Hours/week
    40

  • Emily Wetherell

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rick Paradis

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carol Vasser

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Georgia Valentine

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jan Thouron

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Saudek

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard Campbell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Klein

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joshua Saxe

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,315,243
    Expenses
    $1,405,691
    Contributions
    $577,430
    Grants paid
    $33,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,315,243
    Expenses
    $1,405,691
    Contributions
    $577,430
    Grants paid
    $33,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,276,470
    Expenses
    $1,246,630
    Contributions
    $512,850
    Grants paid
    $25,000

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
    $930,075
    Expenses
    $850,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,632,113

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $944,704
    Expenses
    $673,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,489,184

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $794,393
    Expenses
    $755,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,261,589

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $716,632
    Expenses
    $663,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,199,334

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $603,446
    Expenses
    $474,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,183,193

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $720,133
    Expenses
    $389,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $923,245

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $635,086
    Expenses
    $362,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $542,947

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $151,820
    Expenses
    $184,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,002

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

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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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.