Utah · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS
ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,577 to it, the largest being BROWN ADVISORY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $417k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $493k
What Association of Nature Center Administrators does
Mission
The Association of Nature Center Administrators promotes and supports best leadership and management practices for the nature and environmental learning center profession. We offer many additional programs and resources including collaboration on current research relevant to nature and environmental learning centers, online discussion forums, a professional mentor program, a job posting board, and access to sample documents, e.g.: marketing plans, personnel policies, development plans, position descriptions, etc. We work with the anca network to enhance professionalism and provide the support system critical to innovative and progressive nature center management. We believe that when nature center leaders thrive, their centers can have the most impact possible on environmental education and conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership program: anca provides a membership program for more than 700 professionals in the nature and environmental learning center field. Programs and services include a mentor program, peer-to-peer meetings throughout the u.s., an online discussion forum, a quarterly newsletter and bi-weekly electronic updates, and access to resources pertinent to the field.
$192,369 spent60% of program spendingAnnual summit conference: for twenty-eight years anca's annual summit has been bringing 150-200 nature and environmental learning center leaders together in a small, intimate, face-to-face setting for information sharing, mentoring, training, and professional networking. Anca prides itself on offering a facilitated discussion format during the summit, recognizing the tremendous value gained by sharing peer knowledge and experiencees of others in the field.
$119,909 spent38% of program spendingTechnical assistance: anca offers professional expertise for addressing nature and environmental learning centers' issues. Intense, focused input from nature center directors and senior staff from across the country is offered on topics from starting a nature center to strategic planning preparation to program evaluation to board development - and most things in between.
$5,741 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $318,019.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $401k to $586k (+46%).
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.
34% of ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS’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 OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
17% of ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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 OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS has grown faster than half 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 OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS?
- ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,577 to it, the largest being BROWN ADVISORY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $43,577 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS?
- BROWN ADVISORY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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