Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,002,875 to it, the largest being HAROLD N & THELMA G LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST ($1,134,929). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $684k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art does
Mission
To honor the legacy of Ned Smith by merging the arts and natural world through education, exhibition and experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Ned Smith Center provides free, year-round public access to its facilities, welcoming approximately 12,000 visitors to its outdoor areas and 2,500 to its art galleries and exhibition openings in 2025. Amenities include three art galleries, 535 acres of scenic trails, creek access, a childrens play and picnic area, bird feeding stations, pollinator gardens, an outdoor patio, deck, and amphitheater, and a picturesque bridge. These spaces advance the Centers mission by offering meaningful connections to nature and the arts for visitors of all ages.
$451,048 spent$161,076 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe Ned Smith Centers educational programming engages more than 3,000 participants with nature and inspires curiosity and appreciation for the natural world. In 2025, the Centers educational programs reached more than 2,000 students across Dauphin County and surrounding areas through on- and off-site environmental education programs. In addition to school-based programs designed to support classroom learning, the Center offered summer nature and arts camps to nearly 180 youth, engaged more than 70 families through free monthly preschool story times, and educated more than 100 participants through free discovery series workshops for all ages.
$214,821 spent$69,063 earned by the program24% of program spendingSpecial nature and arts events at the Ned Smith Center attracted more than 5,000 attendees in 2025, including 2,700 at the annual Nature & Arts Festival held at MYO Park in Millersburg and 2,300 at indoor and outdoor concerts and free youth ballet and Shakespeare performances held in the Centers Ned Smith Gallery and DeSoto Amphitheater for the Performing Arts. These events advance our mission by fostering community engagement, celebrating the connection between nature and the arts, and providing accessible cultural experiences for audiences of all ages.
$142,979 spent$88,106 earned by the program16% of program spendingNSCNA continued its 29th year of northern saw-whet owl banding at three long-term sites in Pennsylvania, banding 326 saw-what owls and contributing to long-term research on changing migration and population patterns. The Center also advanced Project SNOWstorm, supporting analysis of movement data from more than 40 snowy owls to better understand arctic breeding, movement, and conservation. More than 60 volunteers contributed 3,100 hours to these research efforts.
$69,860 spent$28,167 earned by the program8% of program spendingPromote an awareness of and appreciation for the art of Ned Smith and other wildlife artists by presenting an annual art auction.
$7,565 spent$24,946 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $886,273.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $14M (−6%).
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.
59% of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $173k → $207k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART’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
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 68% · 2019 55% · 2020 55% · 2021 45% · 2022 74% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
92% of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k 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
NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART: 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 NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART?
- NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,002,875 to it, the largest being HAROLD N & THELMA G LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST ($1,134,929). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,002,875 in grants to NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART?
- HAROLD N & THELMA G LENKER CHARITABLE INCOME TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,134,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NED SMITH CENTER FOR NATURE AND ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing