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KILHAM BEAR CENTER INC

EIN 82-3938421 LYME, NH

Revenue 2024
$583,618
Expenses 2024
$270,434

Program services were 99.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 37

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

REHABILITATE AND RETURN TO THE WILD ORPHANED BEAR CUBS, STUDY SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR OF BLACK BEARS, EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT BLACK BEARS AND COLLABORATE WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH & GAME AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Activities or mission (Part I)

REHABILITATE AND RETURN TO THE WILD ORPHANED BEAR CUBS, STUDY SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR OF BLACK BEARS, EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT BLACK BEARS AND COLLABORATE WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH & GAME AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

  • OPERATE A FACILITY FOR REHABILITATION OF BLACK BEAR CUBS

  • PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL LECTURES FOR THE PUBLIC TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE OF THE BLACK BEAR POPULATION IN NEW ENGLAND

  • CREATE PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE BLACK BEAR POPULATION INCLUDING WRITTEN INFORMATION AND VIDEO PRESENTATIONS

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.

  • BENJAMIN KILHAM

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • DEBRA KILHAM

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • STEPHEN TAYLOR

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAMES SPOTILA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ROBERT GREEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KENNETH KINDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DAVID KAHN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • ETHAN KILHAM

    MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $81,129
    From this org
    $76,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,879
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $76,250
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,879
    Filer's total
    $81,129

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $583,618
    Expenses
    $270,434
    Contributions
    $546,858
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $515,477
    Expenses
    $251,397
    Contributions
    $465,782
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,007,546
    Expenses
    $261,936
    Contributions
    $994,445
    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
    $596,000
    Expenses
    $246,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,106,834

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $295,039
    Expenses
    $97,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $757,328

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $304,267
    Expenses
    $66,123
    Assets (EOY)
    $610,728

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $363,902
    Expenses
    $75,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $323,817

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018
Principal officer
BENJAMIN KILHAM
Mailing address
172 GRAFTON TURNPIKELYME NH 03768
Website
KILHAMBEARCENTER.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.