STANWOOD WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D340

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 485

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

• Fostering a greater appreciation and sensitivity to nature through experiential learning inspired by the scientific works of pioneer ornithologist Cordelia Stanwood the Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary offers educational programs with non-releasable wildlife ambassadors to highlight migratory bird ecology biology and conservation. Caring for our resident ambassador hawks owls and vultures and maintaining their homes requires great effort and dedication to engage each bird as active educational participants inspiring visitors school groups and community organizations in on-site and traveling educational programs. Estimate 6,000 viewers.

  Expenses $19,780

• The two hundred acre Sanctuary is available year round free of charge for walking skiing snowshoeing and photography on nature trails set amidst and preserving various pristine habitats for birds wildlife and the enjoyment of people easily accessible within the heart of Ellsworth. Many of these historic trails Cordelia J. Stanwood created in the early 20th century forming the first professional female ornithologist photographers outdoor "laboratory," where she researched photographed and popularized her findings in magazines for 50 years. Maintaining over 4 miles of trails markers historic and educational signage building bridges while annually removing windfall and pruning new growth is a constant labor of love to preserve a healthy forest in multiple stages of growth supporting Maines wildlife for visitors and children. Estimate 3,000 walkers.

  Expenses $19,937

• Stated within the Certificate of Organization the purpose of the Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary is to preserve and promote Cordelia J. Stanwoods life and legacy shared through opening the doors of her 19th century Homestead to the public. Daily tours are available free to visitors and scheduled groups from May to October. As the Homestead is free to the public we estimate attendance at 2,000. The Nature Center offers a variety of educational nature displays to school groups service and community organizations Audubon and conservation organizations as well as daily visitors from May to November. Rainy days cause outdoor activities to move into the Nature Center. Estimate 5,000 visitors

  Expenses $10,609

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.

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

  $107,700

  Expenses

  $79,660

  Contributions

  $75,567

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $107,142

  Expenses

  $76,064

  Contributions

  $87,130

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $95,607

  Expenses

  $70,542

  Contributions

  $78,139

  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

  $115,141

  Expenses

  $64,432

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,063,970

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $99,709

  Expenses

  $54,876

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,015,786

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $11,550

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE DOWNEAST CHAPTER OF MAINE AUDUBON

  $1,000

  2023

• THE DOWNEAST CHAPTER OF MAINE AUDUBON

  $1,000

  2025

• THE DOWNEAST CHAPTER OF MAINE AUDUBON

  $1,000

  2024

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