South Dakota · Nonprofit
BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC
BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,700 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Badlands Natural History Assoc does
Mission
The mission of the Badlands Natural History Association is to meet the following purposes: promote historical, natural history, scientific education and interpretive activities within the national park service and other similar agencies. Publish and make available to visitors pamphlets, books, folders, maps, visual aids and other theme related material either by sale or free distribution. Handle, buyn and sell government and private publications, illustrative material, goods and merchandise as may be approved or requested by the park superintendent and cooperating areas. Acquire material, objects or equipment for use in scientific, museum or interpretive purposes at badlands national park and cooperating areas. Assist in the development and maintence of the badlands national park library and libraries of cooperating areas. Assist in the aquisition, trade or protection of lands needed to preserve important features, scenic, scientific or environmental conditions within the badlands nati
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education and partnership with the national park service. See schedule o under mission for a more detailed description.
$351,852 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,852.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.3M to $6.4M (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC’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
BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC: 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 BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC?
- BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC (South Dakota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,700 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,700 in grants to BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC.
- Who is the largest funder of BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC?
- WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BADLANDS NATURAL HISTORY ASSOC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2 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