FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

PO BOX 1283, MASHPEE, MA 02649-1283

In care of

% MARYKAY FOX

Mailing address (990-N for 2011)

P O BOX 1283, MASHPEE MA 02649

Principal officer (990-N for 2011)

MARY KAY FOX, 82 HILLCREST DRIVE, FALMOUTH MA 02540

Signed the 990-EZ

MaryKay Fox, Treasurer

Phone

(508) 292-3707

Website

friendsofmashpeenationalwildliferefuge.org

Mission

To ensure long-term protection and enhancement of native wildlife and habitats, support Refuge Partners management efforts, to promote advocacy, education, conservation, and recreational opportunities for the public. Support Native pollinators through education, sponsoring workshops and creating pollinator gardens in the Mashpee Refuge and with Refuge partners and other conservation partners.

Program accomplishments

• Wildlife Educational Programs for the General Public: annual newsletter, walks, and newspaper articles, webpage events. We hold our annual meeting where we highlighted our yearly achievements that include pollinator gardens, working with the Wampanoag tribal youth Camp where we spend a day on natural conservation professional opportunities that include fire management, wildlife conservation, native habitat management and native pollinators. We continue to give presentations to the public. Nearly every year we awarded our David Ross Palmer Environmental Hero award to those dedicated people that are involved in conservation and education. We are also supported by a Cape Cod AmeriCorps member who has created a new newsletters and works on our educational endeavors by support our native pollinator initiative to local K-8 grade schools to present on pollinators, native plants, native plants. etc. Because we do not have a visitor center or office facilities, the Friends of MNWR have rented monthly office space at Cape Space in Mashpee Commons. The AmeriCorps member also works on our educational with the other Refuge partners and conducts public trail hikes.
  Expenses $1,500 · grants $200
• In 2025 we continue our 9th year in working beyond on the 2016 Monarch Habitat Grant were we established 7 acres of Monarch/Native Pollinator habitat with Refuge Partners which include Falmouth Rod and Gun Club and the Town of Falmouth Conservation Commission. We also continue with our educational component of this grant who have now expanded their gardens or want to add host plants for butterflies and we continue to enhance and support teachers and other schools that are intersted in starting a new garden. Many offshoot projects have been started and new collaborations with conservation organizations continue to be explored
  Expenses $1,800 · grants $500
• Native Pollinator Garden Education for the public: We continue to maintain and enhance the native pollinator gardens started in 2013 so this is our 11th year of expanding the pollinator gardens within the refuge boundaries, all by volunteer work and purchasing and growing new plants. In 2024 we continue to add more mature plants and annual seeds to our trailhead gardens. In 2021, despite the COVID pandemic, we added 300 new plants to our new pollinator garden and Kiosk/parking area at the Red Brook trailhead that was started in 2020. the Friends grew native plants & purchased bushes and trees at the kiosk and throughout the site. This is our 6th Refuge garden. We created a new Native Pollinator Brochure specifically for Cape Cod region, listing native plant suggestions, a comprehensive Butterfly & Host Plant listings, and general needs for both plants and pollinators for the home gardener.
  Expenses $500
• We support on-going protection for our endangered New England Cottontail Rabbit and enhance their habitat needs through what is called a "rabbitat" project. We have designed and printed a new hands-on brochure to empower every interested homeowner, business and local scout troops. Visual examples of brush piles to build from simple and available resources in your own backyard are demonstrated in this brochure and available in printed form located at refuge partner visitor centers and trailhead kiosks and on our website as pdf. Hands-on demonstrations were planned by a local scout troop for 2023. In 2024, the project to build 4 rabbitat's with display information kiosk were installed at Red Brook trails and at the Falmouth Rod and Gun Club properties by our local scout troop. In 2025 informational displays were made and installed by a Falmouth Scout in Mashpee to finish this project.
  Expenses $200
• Wampanoag Tribal Youth Camp and Natural Resource day August 2016-2024. Working with the Wampanoag tribal youth Camp where we spend a day on natural conservation professional opportunities that include fire management, wildlife conservation, native habitat management and native pollinators and their habitat needs. This year there were 24 tribal youth that participated planting at their Maushop Farm property where the Santuit River flows through their ancient landholding. In 2024 and 2025 the USFWS Retiree Association gave us a grant to cover the native plant expenses for this program. We started a new initiative of plantings cultural and medicinal plants along with a new diverse species of pollinator plants at the Maushop Farm property. In the past, the tribal youth and refuge partners have enhance or created new gardens at this farm, at their ancient cemetery and meeting house area and at the Wampanoag Tribal Government Center. In each area, the fields are prepared prior to the event and over 400 perennials, bushes and trees enhance their property To start the day off, a cleansing ceremony was initiated with the group, with sage and sweet grass burring inside a quahog shell, lead by a youth member chosen as all participants held hands in a circle formation. Many elders stopped by to thank the youth for their contribution and respect for their ancestors. After their work, each place is full of color and excited voices for the many hours of planting.
  Expenses $2,000 · grants $1,500
• We participated in a new public and fundraiser event called "Walk For The Wild" (WFTW) in 2022, that encourages the public to get outside and enjoy the fall foliage within the Refuge trails. It is sponsored by the Public Lands Alliance and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife system. Participates walk a 5K designated trail through the Mashpee Refuge during the week of WFTW, generally the second week in October. Each year we increase our participation by the public. In 2023 year, we partnered with the local business, the Naukabout Brewery, to celebrate the WFTW where start and end the 5k walk and hold a raffle of nature-related items, offer reduced beer ticket for participants, and showcase the Friends and Refuge annual achievements. We have a live feed of our Osprey Camera and show highlights of the birds lives on the big screen TV for the public to enjoy nature at its closeness. In 2024 and 2025, we altered our walking route to be more in the refuge and included informational signs about native plants and animals and facts about the refuge throughout the walk. This media included QR coding, videos by refuge staff, facts about the Mashpee refuge to bring more awareness to the refuge and the partners activities in a fun and interesting way. We held the celebrations at a local brewery, The Naukabout, had a silent auction, raffle ticket items, sold refuge-themed merchandise and increased public participation by 4 times and brought more income to support our core programs.
  Expenses $562 · grants $850

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

04-3297894

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

1996

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990-N (e-Postcard)

Category (NTEE)

Environment (C30)

Assets (IRS master file)

$49,256

Income (IRS master file)

$26,726

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 04-3297894).

Questions about FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC

What is the EIN of FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC is 04-3297894.

Is FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1996.

Are donations to FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC file?

Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less.

When is the next return of FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC due?

The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended December 2025.

Who is the principal officer of FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC?

The 990-N for 2011 names MARY KAY FOX.

Who are the officers and directors of FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC?

The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 8 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.

How much revenue does FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE INC have?

On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $25,895, expenses of $39,312 and total assets of $49,256 at year end.

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