Indiana · Nonprofit
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,079,252 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($961,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Inc does
Mission
To promote environmental education, stewardship of natural resources, sustainable development, and enhanced quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promotes elementary, middle and junior high school classes with a hands-on learning experience in an outdoor setting as part of a multi-discipline curriculum. Provides an education in ecological and environmental concepts.
$1,418,018 spent$558,991 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,418,018.
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 $1.1M to $2.0M (+74%).
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 19% · 2018 24% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Theresa Weakland
Co-chair, devel
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $101k → $309k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING 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
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 49% · 2019 40% · 2020 33% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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
64% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
53% of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $589k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.7M
- Department of Agriculture$399k
- Environmental Protection Agency$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING 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 INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
- INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,079,252 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($961,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,079,252 in grants to INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $961,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANA DUNES ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 21 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