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LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 23-6419952 LAKE ARIEL, PA

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Revenue 2025
$1,136,204
Expenses 2025
$896,914

Program services were 76.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C300
Classification
1000
Street
94 SANCTUARY 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 · 2025

Mission

LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO PRESERVE THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF LAKE LACAWAC, ITS WATERSHED AND SURROUNDING LANDS, TO CONDUCT LONG-TERM RESEARCH ON NATURAL SYSTEMS AS PART OF A GLOBAL EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT THE EARTHS BIODIVERSITY, AND TO INCREASE APPRECIATION OF THIS EFFORT THROUGH INNOVATIVE, FIELD-BASED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND THE COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION, INC., THROUGH ITS PROGRAMS, MAINTAINS AND OPERATES MARSHES, FORESTS AND LAKES WITHIN IT SANCTUARY AND PROVIDES FACILITIES FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.

  • TO PRESERVE THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF LAKE LACAWAC, ITS WATERSHED AND SURROUNDING LANDS, TO CONDUCT LONG-TERM RESEARCH ON NATURAL SYSTEMS AS PART OF A GLOBAL EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT THE EARTHS BIODIVERSITY, AND TO INCREASE APPRECIATION OF THIS EFFORT THROUGH INNOVATIVE, FIELD-BASED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $685,618

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Craig Lukatch

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $86,960
    From this org
    $75,912
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,048
    Hours/week
    40

  • Peter Paul Olszewski Jr Esquire

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jack Spall Esquire

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Ellen Bentler

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chad Reed-Watres

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William Leishear

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Milton Roegner

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Grillo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Velinsky

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Phil Hobson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Terri Marcellus

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Mark Peterson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Kathleen Sottile

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Genevieve Reese

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,136,204
    Expenses
    $896,914
    Contributions
    $581,651
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,119,052
    Expenses
    $735,395
    Contributions
    $707,390
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,295,977
    Expenses
    $568,975
    Contributions
    $893,373
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,507,068
    Expenses
    $554,057
    Contributions
    $1,283,184
    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
    $622,338
    Expenses
    $426,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,779,580

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $563,307
    Expenses
    $429,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,510,769

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $552,255
    Expenses
    $463,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,210,240

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $603,648
    Expenses
    $398,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,011,377

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $321,954
    Expenses
    $386,625
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,800,374

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $302,785
    Expenses
    $302,565
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,730,760

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $530,119
    Expenses
    $275,757
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,710,760

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $460,945
    Expenses
    $199,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,483,176

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.

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.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.