Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$6,114,583

Total expenses

$5,615,723

Contributions and grants received

$5,907,562

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$112,053

Investment income

$13,945

Other revenue

$81,023

Total assets, end of year

$9,977,641

Total liabilities, end of year

$2,487,170

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$7,490,471

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,015,682

Management and general expenses

$508,092

Fundraising expenses

$91,949

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,015,682

Program services were 89.3% 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

• Southeast Conference is a designated economic development district (EDD) through the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) and an Alaska regional development organization (ARDOR) through the state of Alaska. We are a membership organization, our members include municipalities, federally recognized tribes, businesses, native corporations, government agencies, organizations, and individuals located or doing business in southeast Alaska that support the mission of Southeast Conference. We coordinate with our members throughout the region to develop a comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS) for southeast Alaska. A strategic plan was designed to identify regional priorities for economic and community development. The process is strategy-driven and developed by a diverse workgroup of local representatives from private, public, and nonprofit sectors. By continued involvement with our members through committee and general membership meetings we assist the various groups and communities to use the regional plan as a guidebook and incorporate it into their individual strategic planning process. We also assist in the implementation of the plans by collaborating between different groups, cities and governments.

  Expenses $5,015,682

• Southeast Conference has spent more than 50 years advocating for the ferry system and is working on a multi-phase approach that will identify structural changes to improve the operability and financial health of the state ferry system in its public service mission. Progress in May 2016, the Governor signed a MOU with Southeast Conference in support of these goals and tasked the conference with leading this statewide effort. Phase I mission goals and governance recommendations was complete in December 2016. Phase 2 was completed in November 2017 with the release of the strategic operating business plan. Public outreach and implementation phases continued in 2018. It identified alternative governance structures that could help the AMHS achieve financial sustainability. The report included a high-level examination of six basic ferry governance models to assess their suitability for Alaska's unique geography, markets and transportation needs. Detailed case studies were examined with three ferry systems identified with ideas and lessons applicable to AMHS. Phase II: Twenty-five-year ferry system operating plan was developed January 2017 through December 2017. Phase II included a fleet renewal plan and explored potential partnerships with the private sector and revenue opportunities to allow forward funding of operations and greater fiscal certainty.

• Goal: The majority of energy consumption and costs paid by most residents, business and residences goes towards diesel space heat. Provide diesel displacement through improved incremental delivery of energy efficiency measures. Educate people regarding energy use. Progress: Southeast Conference has worked with the USDA rural development to promote and conduct energy audits for businesses in southeast Alaska. Over 50 businesses participated in the energy audits. Significant technical work continues to progress on a few district heating system concepts that seek place-based solutions to yield non-energy benefits in addition to lower costs and improved efficiencies. Many of the energy-related projects happening in the region rely upon programs and expertise throughout the region and state, with Southeast Conference playing an integral role. Despite depressed oil prices, the region continued strong efforts toward implementation of fuel conservation and efficiency measures.

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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

15 May 2025

IRS schema version

2023v6.0

Source object

202511359349317811

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