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FRIENDS OF THE SEA LION INC

EIN 95-3680896 LAGUNA BEACH, CA

Revenue 2024
$4,654,449
Expenses 2024
$3,986,964

Program services were 73.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D340
Classification
1000
Street
20612 LAGUNA CANYON RD

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION INSPIRES OCEAN STEWARDSHIP THROUGH ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHABILITATION, MARINE MAMMAL RESEARCH, STEM EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND ADVOCACY FOR A HEALTHY OCEAN.

  • THE HIGHEST QUALITY MEDICAL TREATMENT IS PROVIDED TO PROPERLY REHABILITATE EACH PATIENT IN ITS CARE. INJURED AND SICK PINNIPEDS ARE TREATED, FED AND REHABILITATED PRIOR TO BEING RELEASED BACK INTO NATURE. TOP OF THE LINE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, STAFF AND FACILITIES ARE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF OVER 200 ANIMALS EACH YEAR. COSTS ARE ALSO INCURRED FOR LABS, PUBLICATIONS, AND SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE TO FACILITATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS SUCH AS CLASSROOM SUPPLIES, FULL TIME EDUCATORS AND LITERATURE ARE PROVIDED TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT MARINE LIFE AND THE HEALTH OF OUR OCEANS.

    Expenses $2,914,752 · Revenue $44,393

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JEFF MEBERG

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LUCAS QUASS ESQ

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DIANE HALVORSEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JOHN KINNEY

    GOVERNANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • CHRISTOPHER KEYS

    FINANCE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ED BATLLE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • JEFF BRUMETT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • TOM HALE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DR DAN HASPERT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • LISA LOCKLEAR

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • PHIL SHULUK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DR RACHEL STANALAND

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • ROGER FAUBEL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DR ALISSA DEMING

    VP CONSERVATION MEDICINE & SCIENCE

    Total calculated
    $215,101
    From this org
    $202,283
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,818
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,283
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,769
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,049
    Filer's total
    $215,101

  • GLENN GRAY

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $220,436
    From this org
    $200,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,436
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $200,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,436
    Filer's total
    $220,436

  • DEBBIE FINSTER

    VP OF PHILANTHROPY

    Total calculated
    $166,380
    From this org
    $161,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,700
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,680
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,700
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $166,380

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,654,449
    Expenses
    $3,986,964
    Contributions
    $3,675,303
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,412,457
    Expenses
    $3,803,316
    Contributions
    $4,895,536
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,809,247
    Expenses
    $3,629,546
    Contributions
    $3,851,153
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,759,312
    Expenses
    $3,272,854
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,898,376

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,301,212
    Expenses
    $2,603,263
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,341,951

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,245,830
    Expenses
    $2,506,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,628,680

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,446,900
    Expenses
    $2,219,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,886,130

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,093,483
    Expenses
    $1,876,899
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,677,716

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,270,064
    Expenses
    $1,869,995
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,430,781

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,150,938
    Expenses
    $1,900,184
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,025,969

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,917,152
    Expenses
    $1,534,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,736,552

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,330,281
    Expenses
    $1,583,141
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,383,866

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,067,210
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,621,388

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. 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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $4,550 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $3,360 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.