- Revenue 2025
- $21,509,307
- Expenses 2025
- $8,166,994
Program services were 73.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- D115
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 3125 POPLARWOOD CT STE 160
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
-
Jordy Whichard
Chair-Elect
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
MS Brick Brown III
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Dana O'Donovan
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Deborah Albert
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Harry Archer
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Bill Belk
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Bill Berry
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Myra Best
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Joye Blount
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Jay Briley
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Judson Pope
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Steve Coggins
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Virginia Cuthrell
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Carolyn Green
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Thomas B Hackney
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Allan Harvin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Olivia Holding
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Tess Judge
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Art Keeny
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Joyce Sullivan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Pamela Cashwell NC DNCR
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Bob Mattocks
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Suzanne Pecheles
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Adrienne Moore
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Greg Nichols
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $21,509,307
- Expenses
- $8,166,994
- Contributions
- $14,474,738
- Grants paid
- $2,348,025
-
2023
- Revenue
- $12,761,579
- Expenses
- $7,606,049
- Contributions
- $6,121,683
- Grants paid
- $1,548,179
-
2022
- Revenue
- $10,753,676
- Expenses
- $6,899,264
- Contributions
- $4,784,333
- Grants paid
- $1,626,728
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.
Grants made
-
2025 The Society provides support for various projects at the NC DNCR such as education programs, conservation efforts, personnel supplements, professional fees, workshops, etc.
-
2025 The Society provides support for various projects at the Aquarium such as new exhibits, education programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2025 The Society provides support for various projects at the Aquarium such as new exhibits, education programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2022 Society provides support for numerous projects at aquarium such as new exhibits, educational programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2023 Society provides support for numerous projects at aquarium such as new exhibits, educational programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2025 The Society provides support for various projects at the Aquarium such as new exhibits, education programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2022 Society provides support for numerous projects at aquarium such as new exhibits, educational programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2022 Society provides support for numerous projects at aquarium such as new exhibits, educational programs, conservation and sustainability efforts, etc.
-
2023 Society provides support for numerous projects at the division level such as conservation efforts, professional fees, personnel supplements, educational programs, workshops, etc.
-
2022 Society provides support for numerous projects at the division level such as conservation efforts, professional fees, personnel supplements, educational programs, workshops, etc.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$55,000
2024 ANIMAL-RELATED
-
2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$50,000
2024 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2024 TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S STATED MISSION
-
2022 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES
-
2023 MUSEUMS & HISTORIC SITES
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.