Maryland · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,899 to it, the largest being TETO CORPORATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Association for Nature-Based Education Inc does
Mission
We provide professional development and community-based initiatives that cultivate equitable access to nature-based education and environmental literacy for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association for nature-based education, inc. Continues to fulfill our mission through nature-based education programs and initiatives that serve teachers, children, and families. During this fiscal year, we deepened our roots and spread our wings reaching over 1,300 educators who attended nature-based professional development offerings. We planted seeds of nature connection with almost 500 children in our community-based programs, and strengthened partnerships across the u.s. We delivered programs, beloved and new, to meet our mission: to provide professional development and community-based initiatives that cultivate equitable access to nature-based education and environmental literacy for all.
$178,097 spent$197,713 earned by the program50% of program spendingNotchcliff nature programs offer opportunites for nature connection, environmental stewardship, sustainable living, and appreciation for our shared natural world through community-based initiatives. During this fiscal year, programs included an outdoor preschool for children ages 3-5 years old, homeschool programs for children ages 5-10, caregiver and child classes, and licensed summer nature camps. Other programs included community garden days, an annual earth day fairy festival, and the elderflowers nature series with senior residents of a local retirement community. Notchcliff nature programs is the official lab school of the association for nature-based education, inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to growing capacity for accessible nature-based education.
$175,619 spent$165,998 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,716.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $65k to $172k (+167%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
15% of ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Monica M Wiedel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $63k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,899 to it, the largest being TETO CORPORATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $185,899 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC?
- TETO CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR NATURE-BASED EDUCATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing