Huron County Nature Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382996070
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Port Austin, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9895518400
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,067
- Expenses
- $28,041
- Assets
- $136,114
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES WARCHALL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JAMES WARCHALL (PRESIDENT)
- DOLORES BUMHOFFER (VICE-PRESIDE)
- CAROL SCHADD (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to manage, preserve for public use and enjoyment, and operate as a nature center 280 acres of real property in hume township, huron county, Michigan ("the nature center") which are owned by huron county and have been entrusted to the corporation by the huron county board of commissioners ("the county board"). The nature center shall be operated for such educational and recreational purposes as may be agreed upon from time to time by the corporation and the county board, at all times taking due account of the public interest and protecting against encroachment or interference by private interests.
What it reported doing in 2025
To manage, preserve for public use & enjoyment, and operate a nature center for the educational and recreational benefit of the public, 280 acres of land owned by huron county. An estimated 8,000 people visit the center annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.7%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.85; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.1% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.