Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER
THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,120 to it, the largest being NURTURE NATURE FOUNDATION ($822,146). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $426k
What The Nurture Nature Center does
Mission
The Nurture Nature Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity that uses science, art and community dialogue to engage people in thinking critically about environmental risk topics in their communities. Nnc (continue on schedule o)maintains a local center in easton pennsylvania where it pursues this goal and also engages in nationwide research on the subject. Nnc was founded in the wake of major flooding in the region, and a significant focus of its work since inception has been on how to best communicate matters relating to weather and climate hazards generally. Nnc's research and outreach in this area has been disseminated nationwide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Social science research: a significant part of nnc's work consists of social science research conducted in conjunction with national partners, including government agencies, universities, science museums and others. The research focuses on finding the best techniques for communicating about environmental risks, including climate and weather-related hazards, and for approaches for building community resiliency. Nnc's work in this area also includes follow up to disseminate and help put into practice the research findings. Many of nnc's research projects are focused on developing recommendations for the national weather service (nws) on how to improve the flood and winter forecast products it uses in communications with the public. Nnc (continue on schedule o)helps implement these recommendations by developing educational materials and participating in training with nws nationwide. In 2024, nnc worked closely with the weather prediction center to analyze findings from research related to the urban rain rate dashboard and developed and hosted a separate set of focus groups on rainfall forecast products. Nnc also hosted focus groups related to the development of flood inundation…
$631,532 spent48% of program spendingEnvironmental literacy: at its facility in easton, nnc offers a variety of art and other exhibits and activities designed to foster dialogue about environmental issues. Nnc's permanent exhibits include noaa's acclaimed "science on a sphere," for teaching about earth and space science; an sos explorer touch screen kiosk; a large living local mural incorporating 80 environmental talking points, and an interactive watershed exhibit. In addition to these permanent exhibits, nnc holds rotating art shows on environmental themes with presentations by the artists. It also offers speaking events by educators, films, workshops, and classes on a variety of environmental topics, and maintains an urban garden that it uses for educational purposes. Outside its (continue on schedule o)facility, nnc conducts local and regional outreach in many forms, with projects designed to build resilience to environmental hazards. In 2024, nnc worked with six municipalities in the lehigh valley as part of a federally funded create resilience research and community learning hub" project and completed an exhibit of illustrative resilience maps for each municipality along with an online resource about…
$535,928 spent$8,272 earned by the program41% of program spendingNnc administers a program known as buy fresh buy local for the lehigh valley (bfbl-glv), which is designed to educate consumers in the lehigh, northampton and berks counties about the benefits of healthy, locally-grown foods, while supporting the farmers and lands that produce them. Nnc's local foods work also seeks to improve food access for low-income neighborhoods and improve the infrastructure for the local food economy.
$142,252 spent$18,965 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,309,712.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $242k to $415k (+72%).
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: 2019 66% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 64% · 2023 77% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $120k → $216k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER’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
THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 99% · 2019 84% · 2020 53% · 2021 80% · 2022 79% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$3.5M
- National Science Foundation$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$616k
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 THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER
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
95% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nurture Nature Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER: 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 THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER?
- THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,120 to it, the largest being NURTURE NATURE FOUNDATION ($822,146). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,340,120 in grants to THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER?
- NURTURE NATURE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $822,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NURTURE NATURE CENTER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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