Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← All organizations

EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS

EIN 94-2618650 SANTA CRUZ, CA

Revenue 2024
$3,085,707
Expenses 2024
$3,224,638

Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C60Z
Classification
2000
Street
101 COOPER 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

Exploring New Horizons engages school groups in outdoor education programs that empower students, build environmental literacy, and strengthen school communities.

  • Exploring New Horizons Sempervirens program provided residential outdoor education experiences to approximately 8,000 participants, serving elementary through high school students from Northern and Central California. Participants attended 4- to 5-day programs and engaged in nature-based learning that integrated Next Generation Science Standards and Social Emotional Learning competencies. 90% of students demonstrated improvements in teamwork, environmental understanding, and engagement in science learning, based on teacher survey data.

    Expenses $2,505,579 · Revenue $2,531,040

  • Exploring New Horizons Pigeon Point program delivered residential outdoor education programs to over 1,000 students annually at Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park. Students participated in 3-day overnight sessions emphasizing experiential learning in ocean conservation, environmental stewardship, life skills, and community building. Over 90% of teachers reporting increased student confidence, environmental awareness, and peer relationships following participation.

    Expenses $461,839 · Revenue $484,120

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.

  • Joshua Lanam

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $122,829
    From this org
    $122,829
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Stanley Berrin

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christina Scott

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Pelissier

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marty Chao

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brooke Gutierrez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lynn Lafayette

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alison Lercher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tony Martus

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Polk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Drew Saldivar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Wu

    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
    $3,085,707
    Expenses
    $3,224,638
    Contributions
    $54,305
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,053,488
    Expenses
    $3,043,579
    Contributions
    $139,006
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,711,286
    Expenses
    $2,749,756
    Contributions
    $224,203
    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
    $1,654,681
    Expenses
    $1,534,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $554,727

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,587
    Expenses
    $347,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $563,849

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,505,598
    Expenses
    $1,610,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $790,300

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,640,210
    Expenses
    $2,750,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $697,469

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,563,985
    Expenses
    $2,539,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $873,692

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,585,343
    Expenses
    $2,531,252
    Assets (EOY)
    $885,389

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,552,412
    Expenses
    $2,481,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $863,197

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,367,562
    Expenses
    $2,354,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $703,698

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,333,221
    Assets (EOY)
    $726,113

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,165,843
    Assets (EOY)
    $723,982

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

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.