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← SEA TURTLE INC

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by SEA TURTLE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,457,150
Total expenses
$2,167,813
Contributions and grants received
$4,312,675
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$1,303,779
Investment income
$4,831
Other revenue
$835,865
Total assets, end of year
$16,839,088
Total liabilities, end of year
$4,454,607
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$12,384,481
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,894,505
Management and general expenses
$161,517
Fundraising expenses
$111,791
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,894,505

Program services were 87.4% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $46,949

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $44,208

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $91,575

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,129,943

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $38,635

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Admissions

    total $1,303,779 · related or exempt $1,303,779

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $4,831 · related or exempt $4,831

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

    $44,208

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $1,266,319

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $536,638

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $729,681 · related or exempt $729,681

  • 11a · Other revenue: Education Revenue

    total $66,048 · related or exempt $66,048

  • 11b · Other revenue: Other Revenue

    total $37,731 · related or exempt $37,731

  • 11c · Other revenue: Volunteer Revenue

    total $2,405 · related or exempt $2,405

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $106,184

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $79,904 · management and general $79,904

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $602,525 · program services $491,829 · management and general $31,574 · fundraising $79,122

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $37,461 · program services $23,780 · management and general $9,176 · fundraising $4,505

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $52,206 · program services $37,625 · management and general $8,528 · fundraising $6,053

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $3,720 · program services $3,720

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $17,150 · management and general $17,150

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $197,637 · program services $197,637

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $20,347 · fundraising $20,347

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,260 · program services $6,402 · management and general $1,844 · fundraising $14

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $18,727 · program services $12,533 · management and general $6,194

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $23,805 · program services $23,805

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,429 · program services $1,429

  • 20 · Interest

    total $415,515 · program services $415,515

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $215,226 · program services $215,226

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $64,291 · program services $64,291

  • 24a · Other expenses: Donation Expenses

    total $118,618 · program services $116,868 · fundraising $1,750

  • 24b · Other expenses: Turtle Care

    total $110,810 · program services $110,810

  • 24c · Other expenses: Utilities Expense

    total $58,016 · program services $58,016

  • 24d · Other expenses: Conservation Expenses

    total $53,729 · program services $53,729

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $68,437 · program services $61,290 · management and general $7,147

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $3,801,419 · end of year $8,241,794

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $500,756 · end of year $514,837

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year -$198

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $179,832 · end of year $230,951

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $32,422 · end of year $305,486

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

    $8,379,889

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

    $1,641,506

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $6,877,572 · end of year $6,738,383

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $251,853 · end of year $246,045

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $7,277 · end of year $561,592

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $248,627 · end of year $30,474

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $34,279

  • 20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities

    end of year $4,359,677

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $3,453,137

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $13,846 · end of year $30,177

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $7,652,429 · end of year $10,535,617

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $282,894 · end of year $1,848,864

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

SEA TURTLE INC.RESCUES,REHABILITATES, AND RELEASES INJURED SEA TURTLES EDUCATES THE PUBLIC AND ASSISTS WITH CONSERVATION EFFORTS FOR ALL MARINE TURTLE SPECIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEA TURTLE INC PROVIDES EDUCATIONCONSERVATIONAND REHABILITATION RELATED TO ENDANGERED MARINE TURTLE SPECIES

  • The Education Program's objectives focus on educating and providing information to the public on conservation, marine sea turtles, rehabilitation, and being good ocean stewards. The objectives are accomplished via onsite education, field trips, and virtual programs and field trips. Through our education center onsite visitors learn about our mission and programs. Visitors have access to our turtle resident center and rehabilitation hospital. In 2022, students and general public visitors to our facility learned about our mission via field trips, online, and onsite education programs.

    Expenses $571,956 · Revenue $1,919,134

  • Our rehabilitation efforts included turtle rescues, rehabilitation, releasing turtles back to the Gulf of Mexico, and educational programs for school children and general public visiting our facilities. Our rehabilitation center provided care to sick and injured turtles, and sea turtles that live in our facility permanently. We retrieved DOA turtles and successfully released turtles into the ocean. The rehabilitation program includes providing sea turtles with medical treatment, medication, scans, surgeries, and any other treatment or rehabilitation needed to treat the injured or sick turtles.

    Expenses $669,242 · Revenue $1,711,297

  • Conservation efforts include beach patrols. nest protection, excavation, corral creating and oversight. Each year from March to September, we patrol by foot and ATV more than 50 miles of beach to watch and respond to nesting female sea turtles. In 2022, we logged thousands of patrolling hours and covered miles. Our patrolling efforts resulted in locating turtle nests, excavation, and protection of thousands of eggs and the release of hatching sea turtles. These conservation efforts are accomplished through the efforts of permanent

    Expenses $653,307 · Grants $91,575 · Revenue $1,597,146

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Wendy K Grant

    Chief Executive Office

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jc Whitfield

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Heather H Graham

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Nikkie S Hodgson PhD

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Shane Wilson

    Chairman Emeritus Voti

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jeff George

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • John L Tippit

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • John Butler PhD

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Robin Farris

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Carol Demoss

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Pat Burchfield PhD

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Scott Boruff

    Board Member Voting

    Total calculated
    $0

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • Sea Turtle Inc Foundation

    501c3 · Charitable scientificliteraryresearch and educational purposes · TX

    Directly controlled by Sea Turtle Inc

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
31 October 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202303049349302265

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