Georgia · Nonprofit
BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC
BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,150 to it, the largest being THE HANNAH FOUNDATION INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Bear Creek Nature Center Inc does
Mission
To encourage community awareness and active environmental stewardship through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
3 Special Events (Spring Event featuring native plants, pollinators and birds), Reptile Rally (featuring all manner of reptiles) and Bat Fest (highlighting bats, both native and exotic) Approx total of 1200 participants School break programs and activities to provide special meet and greets, crafts and other activities for families. Adult programs including Project WILD and Project WET, a rain barrel workshop, and an Adopt-A-Stream workshop. Outreach programs to schools and libraries On grounds attendance was approx. 6,000 for school groups, about 9-10,000 total attendance.
$86,560 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,560.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.4M (+12%).
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 51% · 2023 91% · 2024 63% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $24 → $10k.
1 of 2 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 BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER 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
BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150 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
BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER 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 BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC?
- BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,150 to it, the largest being THE HANNAH FOUNDATION INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,150 in grants to BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC?
- THE HANNAH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAR CREEK NATURE CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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