Nonprofit · EIN 25-1735097
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART
Tax-exempt · MILLERSBURG, PA 17061
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $684,226 | $1,267,894 | -$583,668 | $13,943,516 | $136,958 | $13,806,558 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $938,915 | $1,297,759 | -$358,844 | $13,996,250 | $65,615 | $13,930,635 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $479,593 | $1,184,091 | -$704,498 | $13,863,596 | $48,313 | $13,815,283 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $400,358
- Membership dues
- $50,615
- Program service revenue
- $90,632
- Investment income
- $203,631
- Net rental income
- $11,300
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $123,400
- Net income from fundraising events
- -$22,935
- Net income from sales of inventory
- $1,240
- Other revenue
- -$10,395
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $108,328
- Other salaries and wages
- $336,744
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $540,713
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $54,557
- Occupancy
- $84,896
- Travel
- $7,140
- Depreciation
- $207,396
- Program services (functional)
- $886,273
- Management and general (functional)
- $348,842
- Fundraising (functional)
- $32,779
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $13,996,250
- Total assets, end of year
- $13,943,516
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $136,958
- Net assets, end of year
- $13,806,558
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $4,284,470
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $5,359,396
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $8,447,162
- Gross receipts
- $1,203,427
- Employees
- 10
- Volunteers
- 200
- Year formed
- 1993
- State of legal domicile
- PA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LARA MAUPIN | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $99,705 | $8,623 |
| JOHN D LASKOWSKI | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| JUDY FASNACHT | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| DHARLA MAIDEN | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| JAMES NACE | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| JOHN ULSH | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| PAM KEEFER | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| RAYMOND ENDERS | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| ERIN MARGERUM | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| DAVE KUTZ | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| TIM TRAVITZ | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| CHRIS RAMSEY | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| BILL KOBEL | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| TRUDY WITHERS | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| RICK CALLA | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
1 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARD BLACK | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 19 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LARA MAUPIN | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $76,787 | $10,024 |
| AGATA CZOPEK | INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $43,476 | $4,777 |
| JOHN D LASKOWSKI | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| JUDY FASNACHT | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| JAMES NACE | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| JOHN ULSH | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| PAM KEEFER | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| RAYMOND ENDERS | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| ERIN MARGERUM | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| DAVE KUTZ | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| TIM TRAVITZ | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| CHRIS RAMSEY | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| TRUDY WITHERS | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| RICK CALLA | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| EDWARD BLACK | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| MARILYN KAUFFMAN | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| STEPHEN SMITH | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| MARK HIPP | VICE PRESIDENT | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| CALVIN DUBROCK | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 19 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN P BOOTH | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $105,283 | $40,571 |
| AGATA CZOPEK | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $34,844 | $4,738 |
| JOHN LASKOWSKI | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| JUDY FASNACHT | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| MARK HIPP | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| JAMES NACE | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| JOHN ULSH | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| PAM KEEFER | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| RAY ENDERS | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| ERIN MARGERUM | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| DAVE KUTZ | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| TIM TRAVITZ | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| CHRIS RAMSEY | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| TRUDY WITHERS | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| CALVIN DUBROCK | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| RICK CALLA | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| EDWARD BLACK | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 | $0 |
| MARILYN KAUFFMAN | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| STEPHEN SMITH | TRUSTEE | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 176 WATER COMPANY RD, MILLERSBURG, PA 17061-8056
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- EDWARD BLACK, 176 WATER COMPANY ROAD, MILLERSBURG, PA 17061
- Signed the 990
- EDWARD BLACK, President
- Phone
- (717) 692-3699
- Website
- WWW.NEDSMITHCENTER.ORG
- Return prepared by
- Boles Metzger Brosius & Walborn PC
Mission
To honor the legacy of Ned Smith by merging the arts and natural world through education, exhibition and experiences.
Program accomplishments
- 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
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 25-1735097
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1994
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Environment (C600)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $13,943,516
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,203,427
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $684,226 | $1,267,894 | $13,943,516 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $938,915 | $1,297,759 | $13,996,250 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $479,593 | $1,184,091 | $13,863,596 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $884,084 | $1,029,522 | $13,988,411 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 25-1735097).
Questions about NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART
- What is the EIN of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART is 25-1735097.
- Is NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1994.
- Are donations to NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names EDWARD BLACK.
- Who are the officers and directors of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 16 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $99,705 (LARA MAUPIN, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $684,226, expenses of $1,267,894 and total assets of $13,943,516 at year end.
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