Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY

EIN 88-2044353 SAN PEDRO, CA

Revenue 2024
$398,003
Expenses 2024
$571,407

Program services were 75.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K20
Classification
8000
Street
2451 SIGNAL ST

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

WE ARE DEVELOPING, MAINTANING AND CURATING SEED BANKS TO PRESERVE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF KELPS, SUPPORT SELECTION THAT WOULD SUSTAIN RAISING OCEAN TEMPERATURE AND OCIDIFICATION PROMOTE RESTORATION OF KELP BEDS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE ARE DEVELOPING, MAINTANING AND CURATING SEED BANKS TO HELP NATURAL OCEAN KELP BEDS.

  • SEEDBANKING:ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY AND COLLABORATORS AT PRESENT HOST OVER 2,500 KELP ACCESSIONS, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST AMONG WORLD'S PUBLIC SEEDBANKS (LEAD MICHAEL MARTY-RIVERA). ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY HAS ENGAGED INTO COLLABORATIONS WITH THE CAL STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS, TO CULTURE KELP-ASSOCIATED MICROBES (LEAD EMILY AGUIRRE). OVER 70 KELP CULTURES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, WHILE ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY ALSO TRAINED 2 INTERNS FROM DISADVANTAGED CATEGORIES. THE FOCUS HAS BEEN ON SAMPLING BIODIVERSITY OF PACIFIC PALISADES AND MALIBU KELPS AFFECTED BY FIRES. THE LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED FOR FOUR SPECIES, LAMINARIA FARLOWII, EGREGIA MENZEESII, EISENIA ARBOREA, AND MICROCYSTIS PYRIFERA. 12, 32, 28, AND 1 SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED OVER THE FIRST 3 SAMPLINGS, WITH MORE COLLECTIONS ONGOING. THE PRESS RELEASE IS ATTACHED. LA TIMES ARTICLE IS COMING. 51 VARIETIES OF KELP-ASSOCIATED FUNGUSES ARE CULTURED. 41 VARIETIES OF MICROBES ARE CULTURED FROM THE KELP SEED BANK, AND 29 FROM FRESHLY COLLECTED BLADES.

    Expenses $369,004

  • OUTREACH AND EDUCATION:KELP ARK STAFF IS DEDICATED TO LEADING TOURS FOR MULTIPLE GROUPS OF VISITORS, EITHER IN COLLABORATION WITH ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES, OR INDEPENDENTLY. WE CONTINUED TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL MENTORING SUMMER PROGRAM: SLIDES, REFERENCE MATERIALS, SELECTING BOOKS FOR CLASS AND HOME READING.THE KELP ARK DISPLAY CONTAINER AND ART HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TERASAKI STUDIOS. THE EXHIBIT HAS BEEN VISITED BY OVER HALF A THOUSAND, AND VERY POPULAR WITH BOTH PUBLIC AND SCHOOL GROUPS.THE STRATEGY OF JOINT EDUCATION ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WITH ALTASEA, IMPLYING PROGRAMMING BY ALTASEA, AND HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES BY THE KELP ARK.THREE GIANT KELP CLUSTER EVENTS HAVE BEEN RUN.RELATIONS OF KELP ARK AND NUMEROUS OCEAN-FACING BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, INCLUDING: NORA EDDY-TNC, CAWTHRON INSTITUTE, CALIFORNIA SEAWEED FESTIVAL, COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA, LEWIS PUGH FOUNDATION- KELP GUARDIANS, FED DEGOBBI, ELEVEN ELEVEN FOUNDATION, PORT OF OVER ONE THOUSAND VISITORS FROM LOCAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES RECEIVED A TOUR OF OUR GROUNDS.

    Expenses $64,247 · Revenue $37,941

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • NINA NOUJDINA

    CFOO/SECRETARY

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

  • SERGUEI NOUJDINE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $41,667
    From this org
    $41,667
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • NANCY CARUSO

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 3/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA DUGUAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN GAINES

    DIRECTOR (THROUGH 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $21,469
    From this org
    $21,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICK HAJEK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RUI PERRIERA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • POLLY PURCELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARC VON KEITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHARLES YARISH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $1,200
    From this org
    $1,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC BISHOP VON WETTBERG

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $398,003
    Expenses
    $571,407
    Contributions
    $358,812
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,431,402
    Expenses
    $299,773
    Contributions
    $1,431,392
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $509,122
    Expenses
    $124,160
    Contributions
    $509,121
    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.

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

  • JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST

    $600,000

    2023 GRANTS TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT

  • ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES

    $509,121

    2022 AIM TO DEVELOP, MAINTAIN AND CURATE SEED BANKS TO PROMOTE CONSOLIDATION OF RESOURCES AND KNOWLEDGE, ENABLE BREEDING IMPROVED NON-GMO KELP CROPS AND ESTABLISH CULTIVATION PRACTICES BY PREVENTING TRANSGENE FLOW TO NATURAL KELP BEDS.PROVIDE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP WHILE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISHING ITSELF.

  • ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES

    $390,879

    2023 AIM TO DEVELOP, MAINTAIN AND CURATE SEED BANKS TO PROMOTE CONSOLIDATION OF RESOURCES AND KNOWLEDGE, ENABLE BREEDING IMPROVED NON-GMO KELP CROPS AND ESTABLISH CULTIVATION PRACTICES BY PREVENTING TRANSGENE FLOW TO NATURAL KELP BEDS.PROVIDE FISCAL SPONSORSHIP WHILE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WAS ESTABLISHING ITSELF.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.