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← CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$16,321,032
Total expenses
$8,581,191
Contributions and grants received
$15,896,754
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$180,690
Other revenue
$243,588
Total assets, end of year
$19,468,521
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,076,700
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$18,391,821
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$6,674,578
Management and general expenses
$729,958
Fundraising expenses
$1,176,655
Program service expenses (Part III)
$6,674,578

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $54,240

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $5,281,615

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $10,560,899

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $6,219,162

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $149,794 · excluded $149,794

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets $43,690

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $12,794

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets $30,896

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $30,896 · related or exempt -$4,771 · excluded $35,667

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $231,122

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $54,240

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $101,894

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $129,228

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $212,454

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $127,459

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $84,995 · related or exempt $84,995

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER REVENUE

    total $21,506 · related or exempt $21,506

  • 11b · Other revenue: RENT

    total $6,400 · related or exempt $6,400

  • 11c · Other revenue: CHANGE IN BENEFICIAL INTEREST

    total $1,459 · related or exempt $1,459

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $29,365

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $4,338,034 · program services $3,196,105 · management and general $469,507 · fundraising $672,422

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $466,736 · program services $371,027 · management and general $32,197 · fundraising $63,512

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $380,377 · program services $280,248 · management and general $41,169 · fundraising $58,960

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $33,608 · program services $22,485 · management and general $11,123

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,334,696 · program services $1,121,876 · management and general $33,310 · fundraising $179,510

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $28,001 · program services $248 · management and general $3,790 · fundraising $23,963

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $132,892 · program services $31,736 · management and general $8,587 · fundraising $92,569

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $81,651 · program services $63,262 · management and general $5,836 · fundraising $12,553

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $98,759 · program services $69,672 · management and general $22,733 · fundraising $6,354

  • 17 · Travel

    total $56,667 · program services $45,408 · management and general $1,008 · fundraising $10,251

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $97,144 · program services $89,304 · management and general $4,091 · fundraising $3,749

  • 20 · Interest

    total $19,979 · program services $15,816 · management and general $1,612 · fundraising $2,551

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $354,984 · program services $336,448 · management and general $18,536

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $203,144 · program services $179,260 · management and general $17,114 · fundraising $6,770

  • 24a · Other expenses: VESSEL & AIR CHARTER SERV

    total $731,167 · program services $729,661 · fundraising $1,506

  • 24b · Other expenses: FEES AND TAXES

    total $90,464 · program services $28,848 · management and general $42,482 · fundraising $19,134

  • 24c · Other expenses: HOUSING

    total $43,515 · program services $43,515

  • 24d · Other expenses: TELEPHONE

    total $30,808 · program services $27,772 · management and general $436 · fundraising $2,600

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $58,565 · program services $21,887 · management and general $16,427 · fundraising $20,251

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $672,285 · end of year $1,144,975

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $839,033 · end of year $1,273,837

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $1,103,879 · end of year $903,721

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $99,818 · end of year $100,664

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $69,787 · end of year $128,562

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $12,984,751

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $3,604,600

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,798,652 · end of year $9,380,151

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $4,054,637 · end of year $6,271,290

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $263,863 · end of year $265,321

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $388,423 · end of year $698,072

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $83,630 · end of year $86,235

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $302,224 · end of year $292,393

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,958,289 · end of year $11,863,650

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,169,388 · end of year $6,528,171

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

SCIENTIFIC MARINE RESEARCH, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION AND POLICY TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE COASTAL AND OCEAN RESOURCES.

  • CCS OPERATIONS INCLUDE COASTAL AND MARINE RESEARCH IN AND AROUND CAPE COD BAY INCLUDING WATER CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY (WHALE, SHARK, AND SEAL POPULATION AND HABITAT EVALUATIONS), MARINE FISHERIES, NEARSHORE HABITAT ASSESSMENTS, COASTAL PLANNING, MAPPING, AND MARINE POLICY. IN ADDITION, CCS CONDUCTS MARINE PLASTIC RESEARCH AND A ROBUST MARINE DEBRIS RECOVERY PROGRAM AND DOES EXTENSIVE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR K-GRAY AUDIENCES. CCS' MARINE DISENTANGLEMENT PROGRAM PROVIDES LOCAL MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND INFORMS INTERNATIONAL GROUPS THROUGH EQUIPMENT PROVISION AND TRAINING. CCS' OPERATES EXHIBIT SPACE AND TWO SEASONAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS.

    Expenses $6,674,578

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Claudia Dent

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lori Meads

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Wolf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristopher Fador

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Caccavale

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher W Clark PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carole Levin

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Carlson

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chuck Lagasse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeanne Leszczynski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Lynne Carter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roy F Coppedge III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dean Stein

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Horatio Potter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Herb Heidt

    VICE CHAIRPE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Clifford Krauss

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Milan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Towle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Frankel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martin Hampel PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Ketchum

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Milliken

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Seaver

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Delaney

    ENDOWMENT AD

    Total calculated
    $177,148
    From this org
    $174,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,333
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,815
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,333
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $177,148

  • Susan Nickerson

    DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $164,993
    From this org
    $140,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,793
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $140,200
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $24,793
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $164,993

  • Mark Borrelli

    PROGRAM DIRE

    Total calculated
    $158,250
    From this org
    $138,883
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,367
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $138,883
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $19,367
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $158,250

  • Cathrine Macort

    DIR ADMIN &

    Total calculated
    $149,230
    From this org
    $134,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,530
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anne-Marie Runfola

    EXECUTIVE OF

    Total calculated
    $156,018
    From this org
    $154,046
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,972
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,046
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $1,972
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $156,018

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
12 June 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202611769349300831

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