Form 990 for tax year 2022
Filed by OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $11,482,994
- Total expenses
- $12,434,240
- Contributions and grants received
- $9,181,040
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $537,942
- Investment income
- $1,464,596
- Other revenue
- $299,416
- Total assets, end of year
- $38,510,735
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $5,275,897
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $33,234,838
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $8,094,732
- Management and general expenses
- $3,793,064
- Fundraising expenses
- $546,444
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $8,094,732
Program services were 65.1% 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.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$1,557
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$6,391,592
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$2,787,891
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$13,841
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2a · Program service revenue: GENERAL ADMISSIONS & GROUPS
total $81,660 · related or exempt $81,660
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2b · Program service revenue: PROGRAMS
total $371,781 · related or exempt $371,781
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2c · Program service revenue: SPONSORSHIPS
total $39,229 · related or exempt $39,229
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2d · Program service revenue: PARTNERSHIPS
total $42,307 · related or exempt $42,307
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2e · Program service revenue: ALL OTHER PROGRAM SERVICE REVENUE
total $2,965 · related or exempt $2,965
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3 · Investment income
total $1,464,851 · excluded $1,464,851
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $13,587
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $13,841
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7c · Gain or loss
securities -$254
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7d · Net gain or loss
total -$255 · excluded -$255
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$0
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9b · Gaming: direct expenses
$0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$0
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: FOREIGN EXCHANGE
total $101,546 · excluded $101,546
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11b · Other revenue: CANADIAN GST (GOOD & SERVICES TAX)
total $12,101 · excluded $12,101
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11c · Other revenue: ALL OTHER REVENUE
total $78,518 · excluded $78,518
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11d · All other revenue
total $107,251 · related or exempt $107,251
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11e · Other revenue, total
$299,416
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $954,355 · program services $368,662 · management and general $585,692
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $4,933,622 · program services $3,646,573 · management and general $1,012,363 · fundraising $274,686
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $77,129 · program services $62,486 · management and general $1,291 · fundraising $13,352
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $131,649 · program services $74,506 · management and general $55,173 · fundraising $1,969
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $334,380 · program services $259,718 · management and general $56,749 · fundraising $17,913
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $159,132 · program services $42,830 · management and general $116,302
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $166,913 · management and general $166,913
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $93,611 · management and general $93,611
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11g · Fees: other
total $1,866,521 · program services $1,116,145 · management and general $565,109 · fundraising $185,271
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $175,879 · program services $169,784 · management and general $3,978 · fundraising $2,117
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13 · Office expenses
total $264,149 · program services $91,878 · management and general $166,573 · fundraising $5,698
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14 · Information technology
total $716,030 · program services $15,273 · management and general $674,294 · fundraising $26,463
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $265,089 · program services $198,291 · management and general $57,365 · fundraising $9,432
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17 · Travel
total $816,807 · program services $788,534 · management and general $24,471 · fundraising $3,802
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $128,744 · program services $126,817 · management and general $1,842 · fundraising $86
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $58,355 · program services $11,033 · management and general $47,322
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23 · Insurance
total $79,492 · program services $55,917 · management and general $19,955 · fundraising $3,619
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24a · Other expenses: ANIMAL CARE
total $0
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24b · Other expenses: EDUCATION & CONSERVATION
total $683,659 · program services $683,659
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24c · Other expenses: FUNDRAISING
total $181,868 · program services $181,868
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24d · Other expenses: RESEARCH
total $737 · fundraising $737
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24e · All other expenses
total $346,119 · program services $200,758 · management and general $144,061 · fundraising $1,299
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $43,034,580 · end of year $35,971,722
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $1,243,550 · end of year $1,055,692
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $143,891 · end of year $168,184
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$737,059
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$288,169
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $99,347 · end of year $448,890
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $925,498 · end of year $866,247
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $2,088,070 · end of year $1,837,935
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $4,473,606 · end of year $3,437,962
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
Mission and programs · 2022
Mission
OCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ENDEAVORS TO EFFECT THE CONSERVATION OF AQUATIC LIFE AND HABITATS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, AROUND THE PACIFIC RIM, AND WORLDWIDE BY EXPOSING THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PEOPLE POSSIBLE TO INFORMATION ABOUT THE AQUATIC WORLD, BY PLAYING A MAJOR ROLE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION, BY CONDUCTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, BY DEVELOPING AND OPERATING CONSERVATION PROGRAMS.
Activities or mission (Part I)
OWCA is a self supporting, non-profit organization whose mission is to empower communities & individuals to take action to protect & restore our world's oceans.
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Education - Ocean Wise's education programs engage educators, students and parents by delivering curriculum-based video courses, take-home education kits, activities and virtual visits with ocean experts. Our youth programs empower young people with life and work skills, supporting lasting civic engagement essential for our oceans to remain healthy and flourishing for generations to come.
Expenses $4,713,393 · Revenue $103,368
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Conservation & Research - Ocean Wise Seafood continues to drive responsible consumer choices in North America. The program, established to help businesses and customers identify and purchase sustainable seafood, has over 700 partner organizations around the world. Other activities include our shoreline cleanup program where over 31,000 kg of litter was picked up, led by over 19,500 participants performing more than 1,998 cleanups across the country. Ocean Wise has a number of ongoing research programs with both onsite & field components. This involves research on cetaceans (including killer whales and humpback whales), ocean pollution and microplastics. Our citizen science research collects and analyzes valuable data on plastic pollution as well as cetacean sightings and we are advancing to restore kelp forests at scale in partnership with Indigenous peoples in British Columbia and in Chile.
Expenses $3,381,339 · Revenue $541,825
As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Mr Lars Gustafsson
President & CEO
- Total calculated
- $357,221
- From this org
- $357,221
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $357,221
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $357,221
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Dr Carlos Drews
EVP, Conservation
- Total calculated
- $253,348
- From this org
- $253,348
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $253,348
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $253,348
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Ms Jennie Moushos
EVP, Finance & Business Dev.
- Total calculated
- $228,471
- From this org
- $228,471
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $228,471
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $228,471
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Mr Nicholas Schulz
Director, Communications
- Total calculated
- $115,315
- From this org
- $115,315
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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Mr Christian Baxter
Director & Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Mr Guy Dean
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ms Barbara Meens Thistle
Director & Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr TJ Schmaltz
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Scott Shepherd
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Keith Spencer
Director & Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Ms Helen Sheridan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Ian Warner
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Ms Lisa Stewart
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ms Ninu Gill
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Rod Campbell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Martin Thibodeau
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ms Alexandra Cousteau
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ms Nina Jensen
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Richard Sparrow
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Brian Sullivan
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mr Rich Simons
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ms Sarah MacDonald
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 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.
Taxable family on this return
Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.
Disregarded entities
Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.
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Ocean Wise Nevada LLC
Inactive · NV
Related corporations and trusts
Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.
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Ocean Wise Management Ltd
C · Inactive · CA · 100% owned · controlled entity
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Ocean Wise Research Ltd
C · Inactive · CA · 100% owned · controlled entity
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Ocean Wise Consulting Servs Ltd
C · Consulting · CA · 100% owned · controlled entity
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2022
- Filed
- 1 November 2023
- IRS schema version
- 2022v5.0
- Source object
- 202303189349314305
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