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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$9,235,946
Total expenses
$13,026,169
Contributions and grants received
$8,862,468
Grants paid
$2,982,132
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
-$18,543
Other revenue
$392,021
Total assets, end of year
$5,186,710
Total liabilities, end of year
$317,822
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$4,868,888
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,794,474
Management and general expenses
$1,727,745
Fundraising expenses
$503,950
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,794,474

Program services were 82.9% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $8,862,468

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $150,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,272 · excluded $1,272

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $138 · excluded $138

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets $24,031

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

    other assets $43,846

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets -$19,815

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total -$19,815 · excluded -$19,815

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $369,967

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $419,586

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total -$49,619 · related or exempt -$49,619

  • 11a · Other revenue: REIMBURSEMENTS

    total $336,124 · excluded $336,124

  • 11b · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $58,601 · excluded $58,601

  • 11c · Other revenue: INSURANCE PROCEEDS

    total $46,777 · excluded $46,777

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $441,502

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $2,680,000 · program services $2,680,000

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $302,132 · program services $302,132

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $533,592 · program services $270,479 · management and general $158,264 · fundraising $104,849

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $490,127 · program services $248,442 · management and general $145,337 · fundraising $96,348

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $2,300 · program services $1,166 · management and general $682 · fundraising $452

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $37,869 · program services $19,195 · management and general $11,231 · fundraising $7,443

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $72,122 · program services $36,558 · management and general $21,389 · fundraising $14,175

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $1,737,689 · program services $1,038,368 · management and general $699,321

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $255,831 · management and general $255,831

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,597,763 · program services $1,180,510 · management and general $247,711 · fundraising $169,542

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $83,471 · program services $45,056 · management and general $7,641 · fundraising $30,774

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $298,508 · program services $204,042 · management and general $44,501 · fundraising $49,965

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $87,741 · program services $32,415 · management and general $25,115 · fundraising $30,211

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $24,806 · program services $23,676 · management and general $960 · fundraising $170

  • 17 · Travel

    total $507,236 · program services $500,246 · management and general $6,990

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $40,578 · program services $39,111 · management and general $1,467

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $557,516 · program services $557,516

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $463,960 · program services $403,307 · management and general $60,653

  • 24a · Other expenses: SHIP EXPENSE

    total $3,128,846 · program services $3,128,846

  • 24b · Other expenses: LEGAL SETTLEMENT

    total $94,345 · program services $56,376 · management and general $37,969

  • 24c · Other expenses: SALES TAX

    total $13,063 · program services $12,592 · management and general $471

  • 24d · Other expenses: LICENSE & REGISTRATION

    total $9,402 · program services $7,431 · management and general $1,950 · fundraising $21

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $7,272 · program services $7,010 · management and general $262

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $4,175,146 · end of year $978,378

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $3,382 · end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $207,885 · end of year $107,434

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $9,451

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $299,320 · end of year $181,134

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

    $5,908,671

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

    $2,043,776

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $4,292,885 · end of year $3,864,895

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $18,087 · end of year $35,723

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $65,864 · end of year $9,695

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $418,852 · end of year $317,822

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $8,603,117 · end of year $4,868,888

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $40,600 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

MARINE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TO END THE DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT AND SLAUGHTER OF WILDLIFE IN THE WORLD'S OCEANS IN ORDER TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT ECOSYSTEMS AND SPECIES.

  • CONSERVATION CAMPAIGNS:DURING 2023, 2 SHIPS (SEAHORSE AND MARTIN SHEEN) WERE IN OPERATION TO SUPPORT THE VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS.OPERATION MILAGRO: IT WAS OUR 10TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR WORKING ON THE FRONT LINES TO PROTECT THE WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED MARINE MAMMAL, THE VAQUITA PORPOISE, ALONG WITH THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER TOTOABA. THE TOTOABA IS VALUABLE AND IN HIGH DEMAND BY CARTELS FROM MEXICO AND ASIA. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MEXICAN NAVY, SSCS VESSELS WERE ON THE FRONT LINES, TO STAND AGAINST THE CARTELS AND PREVENT THIS SPECIES FROM TOTAL EXTINCTION. OPERATION GUADALUPE ISLANDS- THE RV MARTIN SHEEN AND OUR CREW WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS TO GATHER DATA AND INTELLIGENCE ON SEVERAL MARINE SPECIES, WITH THE GOAL OF ENACTING PROTECTION CAMPAIGNS AND PRESERVING THE DIVERSE ISLANDS OF GUADALUPE. THIS CAMPAIGN FOCUSES ON STUDY OF LONG TERM RESEARCH ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE SPECIES OF MARINE ANIMALS- THE CUVIER'S BEAKED WHALE.OPERATION REVILLAGIGEDO: SEA SHEPHERD'S VESSEL MARTIN SHEEN HAS RETURNED TO THE LARGEST MARINE PROTECTED AREA IN NORTH AMERICA TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AROUND WHALES AND INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT THEM.OPERATION ANTARTICA: SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY HAS PARTNERED WITH SEA SHEPHERD GLOBAL TO CHALLENGE THE KRILL INDUSTRY TRAWLERS AND ITS DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOITATION OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN.

    Expenses $10,794,474 · Grants $2,982,132

  • FAROE ISLANDS: RAISE AWARENESS AND TRY TO END THE NEEDLESS SLAUGHTER OF APPROXIMATELY 1150 PILOT WHALES AND COUNTLESS DOLPHINS.

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

Listed in Part VII

  • Roger Fisk

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - AS OF 8/2023

    Total calculated
    $184,783
    From this org
    $184,318
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $465
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,318
    Bonus
    $18,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $465
    Filer's total
    $184,783

  • Pritam Singh

    CHAIR AND PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $155,000
    From this org
    $155,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $155,000

  • Mimi Chang Chief

    OPERATING OFFICER - AS OF 1/2023

    Total calculated
    $151,862
    From this org
    $151,862
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,862
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $151,862

  • Charles Lindsey

    CEO - UNTIL 2/2023

    Total calculated
    $41,947
    From this org
    $41,924
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23
    Hours/week
    40

  • James Costa

    SECRETARY, INTERIM TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Neugent

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roger Payne

    BOARD MEMBER - UNTIL 6/2023

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Glenn Platt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Pransky

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Reiss

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

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
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
ROGER FISK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RECEIVED A BONUS PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $18,000 BASED ON HIS PERFORMANCE.

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

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 SHEPHERD LEGAL

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT ACTIVITIES OF SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY · WA · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

  • SEA SHEPHERD MEDIA

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT ACTIVITIES OF SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY · WA · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

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.

  • GALAPAGOS DREAM LLC

    OWN, OPERATE, AND MAINTAIN SSCS FLEET · CO · income $0 · assets $5,897

    Directly controlled by SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

Related corporations and trusts

Part IV: related organizations taxable as a corporation or trust.

  • ALCHEMY VENTURES LTD

    C · HOLDING COMPANY FOR VESSEL · RM · 100% owned

    Directly controlled by SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
27 September 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202412729349300101

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