Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$6,787,184

Total expenses

$6,173,992

Contributions and grants received

$5,974,377

Grants paid

$505,089

Program service revenue

$271,622

Investment income

$100,730

Other revenue

$440,455

Total assets, end of year

$28,461,596

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,199,338

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$27,262,258

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,213,452

Management and general expenses

$960,538

Fundraising expenses

$2

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,213,452

Program services were 84.4% 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.

Mission and programs · 2023

• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council Programs:Gulf Watch AlaskaThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC) is supporting a long-term monitoring program in the Gulf of Alaska region affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The monitoring program, called Gulf Watch Alaska, involves more than 25 scientists from multiple agencies, universities, and non-profits and seeks to provide data to identify and help understand the impacts of multiple ecosystem factors on the recovery of injured resources. This program is expected to be 20 years in length but is planned and funded in five-year increments. It builds a legacy of restoration research and monitoring by the EVOSTC and federal and state agencies dating back to 1989. The program includes sites in Prince William Sound, lower Cook Inlet, the Gulf of Alaska, and the outer Kenai Peninsula coast. This year has an overlap between two five-year segments. Mariculture ReCon The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC) is supporting a mariculture research program. The overall objective of the Mariculture Research and Restoration Consortium (Mariculture ReCon) is to support resporation, habitat enhancement, and economic development through research and partnerships between scientists and seaweed and shellfish farmers. This suite of applied research components takes a farm-centered approach to address EVOSTC restoration, economic development, outreach, administration, and data management interests that overlap top priorities identified by stakeholders and the Alaska Mariculture Development Plan Developed by the Governors Mariculture Task Force. Results will inform shellfish and seaweed production with farmers as full participants in the research.

  Expenses $3,194,115

• Government Programs:EVOSTC New FacilitiesThe Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council is supporting the development of new facilities for the Prince William Sound Science Center. The new facilities include warehouse, office, and research and education spaces. Over $23 million has been pledged to cover costs associated with the new campus. The funds are being administered by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. CORaL Network The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council is supporting an education and outreach program titled, Community Organized Restoration and Learning [CORaL] Network. The purpose is to create and maintain an ongoing framework that builds the capacity of existing resources withing the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill impacted region to ensure that current scientific information, skills, and activities are publicly accessible and serve ongoing needs as identified by local communities. These funds are being administered by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. BSEE Herder/Burner This is a Joint Industry Program that uses funding from OSRI, ExxonMobil, Shell, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and Clean Caribbean Americas for the development of new oil spill response technology. A remotely operated surface vessel is being developed that can apply chemical herders and ignite herded slicks for in-situ burns. The system will carry remote sensing capabilities and can be controlled locally or through a satellite link. AOOS - Alaska Ocean Observing System This project, funded by NOAA via the Alaska Ocean Observing System, continues implementation of the Prince William Sound (PWS) Observing System (PWSOS). The PWSOS collects ocean, atmospheric and biological observations for use by stakeholders. PWSOS supported tracking of marine organisms using the passive acoustic Ocean Tracking Network, salinity measurements at the Cordova tide station, and the maintenance of the SNOTEL meteorological stations. AOOS Intuitive model-driven particle tracking tools A team of researchers is developing a particle tracking tool that can be overlayed on oceanographic circulation models to allow users to visualize trajectories of drifters, disabled ships, oil spills, and larvae. The focus is connecting the tools to the Cook Inlet Operational Forecast System model used by NOAA. AKSSF Evaluating in-river mortality of Copper River sockeye salmon The Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund provided support to radio tag sockeye salmon traveling up the Copper River. The fish were measured and weighed prior to tagging to determine their fitness. Radio towers allowed the fish to be detected as they moved upstream. The fish were also searched for on the spawning grounds. This provided the information needed to determine how fitness determined survival during migration and success at the spawning grounds. AKSSF Run timing, spawning distribution, and survival of Copper River sockeyeThe Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund provided support to radio tag sockeye salmon traveling up the Copper River. The tags were detected at towers along the river and using aerial surveys. The aerial surveys allowed the determination of the final spawning grounds based on the time the fish entered the system and were tagged.NPRB - Automation of Sockeye Salmon Scale Estimation This project examines the ability of using machine vision and deep learning to automate the reading of Sockeye Salmon scales to determine their age. Automation has the potential to improve management of salmon fisheries. Precise age information is critical to the evaluation of escapement goals, the generation of pre-season forecasts, and the long-term monitoring of population structure. NPRB Seabird use of spatially-predictable tidal rips This project adds a bird and mammal component to a physical oceanography project that is separately sponsored by BOEM. The purpose is to discover if birds and mammals are preferentially using tide rips in Cook Inlet. By understanding how birds and mammals use oceanographic features we can better predict potential impacts of oil spills. NOAA Empowering kelp faming The seaweed mariculture industry in Prince William Sound needs market development, science-backed information on best practices, and local capacity to improve the probability of success. This work has kelp farmers and biologists collaborating to establish a kelp nursery in Cordova, AK, and evaluate best practices for collecting seed stock from fertile tissue. NOAA Climate adaptation and resilience This project addresses the critical need for fishing communities in the Gulf of Alaska to formalize fisheries resilience strategies in adaptation plans, focusing on three of the most highly dependent and divers fishing communities in the region Cordova, Kodiak, and Sitka. The project will advance integrated scientific research and build partnerships between scientists, fishermen, Tribes, and Tribal citizens to enhance local planning capacity and responsiveness to climate change. NPS Migratory success of Copper River Sockeye Salmon This project aims to integrate prior and ongoing radio-telemetry data on Copper River sockeye spawning migration with several long-term ADF&G data sets to develop forecasting models to predict migratory success by incorporating new information from a recently available hydrological model developed by USGS. BOEM Cook Inlet Physical Oceanography With support from the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management this project is pulling together the existing data from Cook Inlet, modeling factors that affect circulation, and make field measurements as needed to fill gaps identified in the analysis of the existing data. NPS Examining the health metrics of sockeye salmon This project supports a UAF led project. It collects tissue samples and energetics estimates from Copper River sockeye salmon. In collaboration with UAF it helps to analyze the data and supports energetic modeling efforts. USFWS Aleutian Tern The Aleutian Tern Technical Committee working group is undertaking a project to determine the current distribution and abundance of Aleutian terns at a statewide scale. This project uses aerial surveys to identify current breeding colonies, and on-the-ground access to estimate tern abundance. PWSMFC Empowering coastal Alaska by building local capacity for kelp farming This project strives to increase seaweed mariculture success by addressing market development, science-backed information on best practices, and local capacity in collaboration with local mariculture farms and biologists. There is a focus on best practices for collecting and growth of seed stock. EDA Seaweed nursery expansion This program provides equipment needed to allow PWSSC serve as a nursery facility for local seaweed mariculture operations.

  Expenses $820,991 · Revenue $65,519

• Oil Spill Recovery Institute Programs:Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI)This program funds the administration and awards of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute, a federally established program to support research, education, and demonstration projects designed to respond to and understand the effects of oil spills in Arctic and sub-Arctic marine environments. Initiated in 1997, funding is provided directly from the interest earnings on a $35.3 million principal allocationadministered by the U.S. Coast Guard (from the National Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund). The Institute is governed by an Advisory Board which includes representatives from Federal and State agencies, Alaska Native and PWS communities, and industry representatives appointed by the Governor of Alaska. The Advisory Board Chair is a U.S. Department of Commerce representative.PWSSC OSRI Program ManagerThe OSRI Program Manager supports OSRI by identifying research needs, working with the Work Plan Committee to develop annual work plans, and track progress on contracts. The Program Manager also interfaces with other research efforts to share the information learned by OSRI.PWSSC H2O Headwaters to Ocean Program & Education ProgramThe H2O Headwaters to Ocean Program is the umbrella under which all our education and outreach efforts occur. This program has four primary components this year: (1) the Discovery Room, a program which supplements elementary school science education; (2) Secondary School Outreach, programming designed to keep older students engaged in marine science-centric activities that promote critical thinking, problem solving and ecological literacy; (3) Outreach Discovery to support delivery of STEM education programming to audiences outside of Cordova; (4) Mini Discovery, such as Seq Squirts and Little Dippers, are designed to engage youth who are not yet school age in hands-on activities. Headwaters to Ocean is funded in large part by OSRI. Other funding comes from ConocoPhillips Alaska, Saltchuk, Boeing, iindividual and small business donations, foundations, and program fees.PWSSC Herder/BurnerThis is a Joint Industry Program that uses funding from OSRI, ExxonMobil, Shell, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, North Caspian Operation Company, and Clean Caribbean Americas for the development of new oil spill response technology. A remotely operated surface vessel is being developed that can apply chemical herders and ignite herded slicks for in-situ burns. The system will carry remote sensing capabilities and can be controlled locally or through a satellite link.

  Expenses $732,755 · Grants $505,089

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• Safeguard Marine

  $149,550

  Maritime Evaluation of Refuge

• University of Alaska Fairbank

  $58,760

  Aerial Sys/Oil Spill/Radar/Env. Cas

• North Pacific Research Board

  $50,000

  Polar Bear and Seal Distribution

• University of New Orleans

  $46,520

  Detection & Toxiciy of Hydrocarbon

• Farallon Institute

  $45,244

  Arctic Cod

• Resource Planning Inc

  $32,734

  ESI Shoreline / Bird Habitat

• New Jersey Institute of Tech

  $24,999

  Impact of below-freezing air temper

• US Fish and Wildlife Service

  $20,000

  Printing of Alaska Spill Response W

• Fjord & Fish Sciences

  $5,728

  Subsistence Food Contaminant

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

12 August 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

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