Georgia · Nonprofit
ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC
ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,267 to it, the largest being THE CHANTAL AND TOMMY BAGWELL FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Elachee Nature Science Center Inc does
Mission
To promote environmental understanding through education and conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Daycamp - to provide camp to preschool through high school aged children with an emphasis on the environment
$324,941 spent$326,866 earned by the program25% of program spendingTo provide educational services relative to science and nature to students and other visitors
$467,202 spent$471,703 earned by the program35% of program spendingPreschool & k-1 for children combining experiential learning with nature based learning
$406,922 spent$252,243 earned by the program31% of program spendingOther programs including preserve management, museum and exhibits
$123,087 spent$193,854 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,322,152.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $3.4M (+34%).
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 18% · 2018 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Bell
President/CEO
Board chair
Rick Boyd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $6k → $69k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $991k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Georgia Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE 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
ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 71% · 2021 59% · 2022 54% · 2023 43% — 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 ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
94% of ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k 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
ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE 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 ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $532,267 to it, the largest being THE CHANTAL AND TOMMY BAGWELL FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $532,267 in grants to ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE CENTER INC?
- THE CHANTAL AND TOMMY BAGWELL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELACHEE NATURE SCIENCE 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 17 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