EIN 04-2104702

Massachusetts Audubon Society

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
867
Year formed
1896
Most recent tax filings
2021-06-01
Description
To protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, and habitat stewardship. Land & habitat conservation and environmental education. To protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and ...
Total revenues
$37,986,297
2021
Total expenses
$28,542,015
2021
Total assets
$355,065,966
2021
Num. employees
867
2021

Program areas at Massachusetts Audubon Society

Environmental education and wildlife sanctuary stewardship: mass Audubon maintains 25 field offices and staffed wildlife sanctuaries (including 20 sanctuaries with nature centers, two of which are in urban areas) and an additional 35 unstaffed wildlife sanctuaries which are prepared for public visitation. Mass Audubon sanctuaries serve as the base for nature and environmental education courses and programs, scientific research, ecological management and other conservation-related activities. As of june 30, 2021, mass Audubon protected 40,434 acres of open space in Massachusetts, owning 32,820 acres in fee and protecting the remainder with conservation easements. These diverse protected habitats range from the berkshires to cape cod and the islands and help preserve the rich biodiversity of Massachusetts. Mass Audubon actively pursues both donations and purchases of additional conservation land and is the largest private conservation landowner in the state. An estimated 571,000 visitors came to enjoy mass Audubon properties in fy 2021.mass Audubon is the also largest non-governmental provider of nature education in the state. Mass Audubon develops educational materials and environmental policy materials for students, teachers, legislators, and the general public. In fy 2021, mass Audubon taught nature programs to more than 50,000 children and adults, enrolled more than 3,700 children in its summer day and residential nature camps, and conducted science/nature training for more than 657 teachers, despite the constraints of the pandemic. In addition, mass Audubon was fortunate to have more than 3,275 volunteers contribute more than 63,000 hours of service across the state in fy 2021.
Conservation science: mass Audubon utilizes and develops scientific knowledge to support its longstanding tradition as an organization which uses science as the underpinning for its education, land protection, advocacy and habitat stewardship activities. Current research and/or ecological management work focuses on the protection and stewardship of selected Massachusetts habitats such as grasslands, coastal heathlands and salt marshes. In addition, monitoring of key groups of organisms such as birds, amphibians, invertebrates and plants continues across the state in order to provide an important baseline to evaluate changing environmental conditions associated with climate change and land development. Mass Audubon has also developed and implements an invasive species management strategy to protect the integrity of its lands as well as to provide guidance for other landowners throughout the state.mass Audubon lands play a critical role in the delivery of its mission and its land protection efforts focus on conserving ecologically significant tracts of land adjacent to existing wildlife sanctuaries, thereby protecting and enhancing their biological integrity and viability as program sites. Mass Audubon also advances the protection of selected high priority focus areas beyond its existing wildlife sanctuaries through collaboration with state and local public agencies and local and regional land trusts. Collectively, these protection priorities include a wide range of Massachusetts habitats.
Member services: in addition to the member services provided by the network of sanctuaries and the education programming referenced in 4a above, mass Audubon produces a newsletter four times per year for members (explore) as well as an e-newsletter (explorations) which is also produced four times per year, a comprehensive annual report, and publications to increase public awareness of wildlife, nature, and environmental issues. For example, in fy 2020 mass Audubon completed work on the sixth edition of its definitive report on land use in Massachusetts entitled losing ground: nature's value in a changing climate. This report calculates and analyzes the causes associated with the loss of open space in Massachusetts and calls for a bold state-wide land conservation goal to preserve open space and combat climate change.in addition, the mass Audubon website (www.massaudubon.org) offers a wide variety of information on mass Audubon's sanctuaries, conservation efforts, land protection projects, advocacy issues, climate change work, and the natural world. Currently, mass Audubon has 22 sanctuary e-newsletters and ten other e-newsletters on specific topics, as well as a number of blogs. Mass Audubon also operates a gift shop in lincoln which sells merchandise related to nature, wildlife observation and environmental education to both members and non-members as well as a number of smaller nature-themed gift shops at many of the sanctuaries.

Who funds Massachusetts Audubon Society

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundFor Grant Recipient's Exempt Purposes$1,264,772
Schwab Charitable FundEnvironmental and Animals$889,815
American Endowment FoundationPrograms$112,000
...and 88 more grants received totalling $3,597,566
Federal funding details
Federal agencyProgram nameAmount
Department of the InteriorNORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS CONSERVATION FUND$1,000,000
National Science FoundationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$51,168
Department of AgricultureWILDLIFE HABITAT INCENTIVE PROGRAM (WHIP)$43,122
...and 6 more federal grants / contracts

Personnel at Massachusetts Audubon Society

NameTitleCompensation
Bancroft PoorAssistant Treasurer , Chief Financial Officer / Executive Team / Vice President Finance and Assistant Treasurer$168,401
Hillary TruslowVice President of Marketing$118,687
Nora FrankVice President of Philanthropy$154,293
Gail YeoVice President of Wildlife Sanctuaries$149,904
Gary ClaytonFormer President / President$251,353
...and 34 more key personnel

Financials for Massachusetts Audubon Society

RevenuesFYE 06/2021
Total grants, contributions, etc.$23,422,342
Program services$7,979,630
Investment income and dividends$814,933
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$266,161
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$5,101,632
Net income from fundraising events$23,183
Net income from gaming activities$23,264
Net income from sales of inventory$355,152
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$37,986,297

Form 990s for Massachusetts Audubon Society

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2021-062022-01-10990View PDF
2020-062021-04-05990View PDF
2019-062020-02-06990View PDF
2018-062019-02-21990View PDF
2017-062018-03-14990View PDF
...and 7 more Form 990s

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Natural LandsMedia, PA$16,114,941
Land Trust Alliance IncorporatedWashington, DC$13,271,021
National Parks Conservation AssociationWashington, DC$40,067,349
Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT)Topsham, ME$19,850,749
Society for the Protection of New Hampshire ForestsConcord, NH$11,745,751
Lancaster County ConservancyLancaster, PA$11,405,224
Data update history
August 16, 2022
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
August 4, 2022
Updated personnel
Identified 6 new personnel
August 4, 2022
Used new vendors
Identified 5 new vendors, including , , , , and
August 4, 2022
Received grants
Identified 26 new grant, including a grant for $112,000 from American Endowment Foundation
October 2, 2021
Received grants
Identified 33 new grant, including a grant for $75,261 from Alvarium Foundation
Nonprofit Types
Social advocacy organizationsEnvironmental organizationsHeadquarter / parent organizationsCharities
Issues
Land and water conservationEnvironment
Characteristics
MembershipsPolitical advocacyLobbyingConservation easementFundraising eventsOperates internationallyState / local levelReceives government fundingEndowed supportCommunity engagement / volunteeringProvides scholarshipsAuction fundraisersTax deductible donations
General information
Address
208 South Great Rd
Lincoln, MA 01773
Metro area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
County
Middlesex County, MA
Website URL
massaudubon.org/ 
Phone
(781) 259-9500
Facebook page
MassAudubon 
Twitter profile
@massaudubon 
IRS details
EIN
04-2104702
Fiscal year end
June
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1896
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
C34: Land Resources Conservation
NAICS code, primary
813312: Environment, Conservation, and Wildlife Organizations
Parent/child status
Central organization
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