Lake Erie Junior Nature & Science Center
Lake Erie Junior Nature & Science Center
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About this organization
Mission
Lake Erie Nature & Science Center educates and inspires people to understand, appreciate and take responsibility for our natural world.
About
Student programs and nature-based preschool: The center provides young children and students with hands-on experiences to discover the natural world with a distinct blend of resources encompassing wildlife, exhibits, planetarium and park setting near the shores of Lake Erie. Annually, the center serves more than 23,000 preschoolers and their parents through our nature-based preschool classes and early childhood programs, more than 4,500 girl, cub and boy scouts, and more than 14,000 students from pre-k to high school with programs and field trips, involving physical, life, earth and space science concepts. The center works with teachers and curriculum specialists to ensure that field trips are aligned to Ohio academic content standards. Project wildlife is a youth service learning program that provides high school students hands-on learning with native animals, which is an experience unique to the center. The center's wildlife internship program gives college students real-world experience working with its live animal collection and wildlife rehabilitation patients.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The non-profit's mission is outlined in the filing as being “The mission of lake erie nature and science center (the center) is to educate and inspire people to understand, appreciate and take responsibility for our natural world. the center's vision is to give every child and adult first-hand learning experiences with nature and science and to promote a lifelong interest in discovery of our natural world.”.
When outlining its responsibilities, they were referred to as: “The mission of the lake erie nature and science center is to provide informal science education.”.
- The state in which the non-profit operates has been officially reported as OH.
- The filing reveals the non-profit's address in 2020 to be 28728 WOLF ROAD, BAY VILLAGE, OH, 44140.
- As per the non-profit's form for 2020, they have 40 employees on their payroll.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $244,115.
- The organization has 20 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1950.
- The organization pays $828,306 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $116,272 in fundraising expenses.