2025-06-02T17:05:45-07:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 475006681 IN SITU EXPLORERS INSI 9198026103 1204 Village Market Place 245 Morrisville NC 27560 April Smith CEO 9198026103 2025-05-27 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z April Christine Smith 109 Tarkington Ct Morrisville NC 27560 369440 0 X www.insituexplorers.org X 2015 NC To make access to science education in North Carolina equitable, impartial, and widely available, while invoking passion and encouraging a better understanding of how science and nature impact our lives. 4 3 2 32 0 0 255500 369440 0 0 0 0 0 0 255500 369440 0 0 0 0 109213 95209 0 0 7500 69808 178765 179021 273974 76479 95466 157748 219207 60000 25993 97748 193214 X To make access to science education in North Carolina equitable, impartial, and widely available, while invoking passion and encouraging a better understanding of how science and nature impact our lives. 1 0 122324 215000 0 Management of the NC Science Trail-We partner with 103 science education entities across the state to bring awareness to SciEd opportunities for the public. Our partners include public and private museums, science centers, planetariums, wildlife centers, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, all of the NC state parks. We expanded our services in 2024 to offer additional educational resources to classroom teachers. We expanded from 89 to 103 science trail partners statewide. So many science venues provide great science education opportunities for visitors and residents to NC, but it is difficult to find all of the information in one place. Our goal is to partner with these organizations, bring awareness to their programs, and reach out to the public through both in-person and digital means, providing entertaining, intriguing, and educational information that encourages science engagement across the state. In 2024 our online content engagement grew to ~30,000 view per quarter, and we did science experiments with over 2400 kids at 24 statewide science education events. We had 32 volunteers in 2024 serving over 200 volunteer hours. 45561 50000 0 NC Welcome Center Engagement: We have partnered with all official NC Welcome Centers to attract travelers coming into the state by car who may be interested in science education opportunities and activities. Nearly half of our partners are state parks and North Carolina is known for is natural beauty and natural history. We also have a tremendous number of science education venues that families love to visit while traveling. As such, we put displays with images and information about our SciEd partners in the NC Welcome Centers. Long-term this partnership will foster SciEd events at Welcome Centers with partners, allowing us to connect with visitors. 14771 7800 0 Partner Event EXPOS - Five Regional public events to share science and nature activities in more rural parts of North Carolina 0 0 0 182656 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 X April C Smith PhD 9198026103 1204 Village Market Pl 245 Morrisville NC 27560 April C Smith PhD President 40 0 X X X 69872 0 0 Kristen Nightingale Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Gilleland PhD Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Gitanjali Tenja PhD Director 3 0 X 0 0 0 69872 0 0 0 0 0 0 CaduceusWebs Co 9526 Argyle Forest Blvd B2-332 Jacksonville FL 32222 Website development 115702 1 0 640 0 0 365000 3800 10000 369440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 369440 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69872 10500 51872 7500 18571 0 18571 0 6766 6766 678 678 152622 150552 2070 10256 10256 8515 6473 2042 4440 4020 420 855 855 0 1399 1399 273974 182656 83818 7500 157748 219207 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 157748 219207 60000 25993 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60000 25993 X 4745 0 93003 193214 97748 193214 157748 219207 95466 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 1000 206 10145 10500 4440 26291 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10000 15000 20000 20000 65000 1000 10206 25145 30500 24440 91291 0 91291 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 475 0 0 0 475 91766 736291 0.99482 0.99294 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 We have not had additional income outside of the NC Science Trail project funding in a few years. It has been our primary project and we are currently not offering adult education classes. Stephen B Smith Husband of the executive director, April Smith 18571 Stephen has been serving as part-time IT/website director to guide contracted website services 0 Form 990, Part III, Line 2 Partner Event EXPOS - Five Regional public events to share science and nature activities in more rural parts of North Carolina Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Family relationship Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Board Members received the form by email and were asked to respond with any questions, comments, or concerns. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Directors were asked at filing time if they had any potential conflicts of interest to report. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 April Smith sits on the board and acts as executive director of the nonprofit. The remaining three independent board members analyzed comparable salary statistics and voted on April's salary without her being present. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 We have stated on our website that our financial documents are available for review by request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g These are contractors that were hired to (1)manage website needs/changes/updates, (2) programming management assistance as well as program advertising/marketing and social media. We also had to hire a handy man to fix the wall in our office. Our nonprofit is small with few employees and we had personal dealings in western NC after Hurricane Helene, so we filed for an extension that was approved.