Michigan · Nonprofit
DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC
DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,687 to it, the largest being SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve Inc does
Mission
To provide educational experiences which encourage a commitment to care for the earth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dinosaur hill nature preserve provides educational and recreational programming for the greater rochester area. The programs are hands-on and are designed to get children and adults excited fore the natural world and provide them with the foundation of knowledge for them to be informed decisions makers about issues involving science. Programs are provided for individuals ranging in age from preschool through seniors. Programs are presented to school children, scout groups, families, preschools and home-schools. The organization also maintains and manages multiple community gardens and is active in the community to promote sustainable activites such as recycling and non-motorized transportation.
$74,444 spent$124,968 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $74,444.
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 2020 to 2021, from $908k to $982k (+8%).
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 12% · 2018 28% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 14% · 2022 42% · 2023 13% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Sue Neal
Executive director
Board chair
Nick Gaydos
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $83.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE 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
DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 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
DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587 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.
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% 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 DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE 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 DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC?
- DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,687 to it, the largest being SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,687 in grants to DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC?
- SINGING FIELD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DINOSAUR HILL NATURE PRESERVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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