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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by GREAT LAKES OBSERVING SYSTEM REGIONAL ASSOCIATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,877,735
Total expenses
$4,775,106
Contributions and grants received
$4,761,011
Grants paid
$2,017,608
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$116,724
Total assets, end of year
$875,307
Total liabilities, end of year
$681,865
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$193,442
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,489,717
Management and general expenses
$285,389
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,489,717

Program services were 94.0% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $4,744,778

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $16,233

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $116,724 · related or exempt $116,724

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $116,724

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,964,318 · program services $1,964,318

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $53,290 · program services $53,290

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $590,120 · program services $533,955 · management and general $56,165

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $589,389 · program services $470,859 · management and general $118,530

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $61,283 · program services $55,835 · management and general $5,448

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $108,693 · program services $99,058 · management and general $9,635

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $66,199 · program services $56,741 · management and general $9,458

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $8,987 · management and general $8,987

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $21,603 · management and general $21,603

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $51,879 · program services $39,689 · management and general $12,190

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $121,867 · program services $117,323 · management and general $4,544

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $906,627 · program services $886,843 · management and general $19,784

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $47,592 · program services $45,212 · management and general $2,380

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $16,489 · program services $14,840 · management and general $1,649

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $14,612 · management and general $14,612

  • 24a · Other expenses: Equipment purchases for grants

    total $151,501 · program services $151,501

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $657 · program services $253 · management and general $404

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $236,930 · end of year $359,307

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $2,407

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $457,422 · end of year $439,223

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $74,370

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $603,539 · end of year $681,865

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $90,813 · end of year $193,442

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

As a nonprofit IOOS Regional Association, GLOS provides end-to-end data services that support science, policy, management, and industry all around the Great Lakes region.

  • GLOS coordinates a network of data users and data providers to improve the collection, management, and delivery of data across the Great Lakes region. GLOS sponsors data collection and data management projects conducted by academic institutions, non-profits, government agencies, tribes, and the private sector in the Great Lakes region including seasonal deployment of a near-shore observing asset network of approximately 50 buoys, 6 gliders, 2 high frequency radar stations and 2 autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs over 575 data streams are made available through seagull.glos.org/landing.

    Expenses $4,489,717 · Grants $2,017,608 · Revenue $116,724

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Tim Kearns

    Chief Information Officer

    Total calculated
    $218,000
    From this org
    $180,997
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,003
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,997
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $17,311
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,692
    Filer's total
    $218,000

  • Jennifer Boehme

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $200,574
    From this org
    $162,805
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,769
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,805
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $16,638
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,131
    Filer's total
    $200,574

  • Josephine Grimaudo-Cacciatore

    Financial Manager

    Total calculated
    $148,121
    From this org
    $117,347
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,774
    Hours/week
    40

  • Pete Giencke

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas Rayburn

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Fisk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leon Carl

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Gandulla

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Annie Atkinson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary-Claire Buell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Heather Stirratt

    Director

    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

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
  • 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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
4 May 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202601249349301030

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