Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art

Analysis

Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art is a registered charity in United States, based in Millersburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art reported income of $480k and spending of $1.2m, spending 247% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $638k to $480k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 156%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 68th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Platte River Basin Environments Inc ($479k), Friends of Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserv ($480k) and Falls of the Ohio Foundation Inc ($479k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% and program service revenue 11% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $185k (16% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $242k. At year end it held assets of $13.9m against liabilities of $48k, net assets of $13.8m. It reported 15 employees.