SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q055

Classification

8000

Street

4581 NW 6TH ST STE A

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 · 2023

• Florida Programs Networking, education, advocacy, research, and grants programs based in the United States to eliminate threats facing sea turtles and to preserve nesting and feeding habitats. This includes an in-water research project to study the sea turtles of the Big Bend region of Florida. Other activities include close monitoring and shaping of policies at the local and state level impacting sea turtles and their habitat. STC also hosts Tour de Turtles, an annual educational program using satellite-tracked migrations of sea turtles that combines research and education into a free, interactive program available online to anyone.

  Expenses $1,184,931 · Grants $538,717

• Lighting and Predation - Initially these programs were created in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Funds have been used for sea turtle mitigation in three areas: lighting, rehabilitation, and predation. Currently funding continues for mitigation in lighting and predation. Lighting grants replace problem fixtures on coastal properties with shielded amber LED lights that reduce disorientation for nesting turtles and hatchlings. Predation funds concentrate on reducing the incidence of predation of turtle eggs and hatchlings.

  Expenses $921,561 · Grants $434,340

• Tortuguero Research and Conservation - Sea turtle research and conservation based in Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Emphasis is centered on the local populations of green and leatherback turtles. This includes tagging and educational activities, research grants, fellowships, and other related expenses. The project also includes a research assistantship program that provides training to aspiring biologists, particularly from Latin America and the Caribbean.

  Expenses $760,683 · Grants $336 · Revenue $134,979

• Panama Research and Conservation - A collaborative sea turtle research and conservation initiative based at Bocas del Toro on Panamas north Caribbean coast. Modeled after STCs Tortuguero program, the purpose of the Panama project is to study, protect and recover local populations of leatherback and hawksbill turtles, both of which nest in globally significant numbers in the region. The project includes ongoing monitoring, protection and education activities at Chiriqui Beach, Playa Larga, Red Beach and Escudo de Veraguas, Soropta, Colon, Bluff Beach and the Zapatilla Cays.

  Expenses $624,649 · Grants $1,454 · Revenue $300,000

• Barrier Island Center - The Barrier Island Center (BIC) is an educational center located in the heart of the Archie Carr Refuge (the Refuge) in Melbourne, Florida. The Refuge is a major nesting site for sea turtles. The BIC provides a focal point for the Refuge and the associated barrier island by providing exhibit space, a presentation hall and ongoing educational programs that promote stewardship of the areas fragile natural resources. Through a partnership with the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, STC oversees and conducts the educational programs offered at the BIC, and manages a small gift shop.

  Expenses $132,833 · Revenue $16,806

• International Programs - These programs protect sea turtles by expanding conservation, education and policy initiatives in a variety of activities throughout the world.

  Expenses $98,157 · Grants $7,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,515,913

  Expenses

  $4,494,238

  Contributions

  $5,573,627

  Grants paid

  $981,847

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,862,088

  Expenses

  $3,980,501

  Contributions

  $3,836,464

  Grants paid

  $1,036,249

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

  $4,663,410

  Expenses

  $4,184,468

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,664,013

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,700,749

  Expenses

  $3,293,063

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,966,661

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,677,980

  Expenses

  $3,557,856

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,284,310

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,261,910

  Expenses

  $2,885,468

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,079,444

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,392,714

  Expenses

  $3,339,353

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,718,370

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,034,146

  Expenses

  $2,864,242

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,691,078

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,995,931

  Expenses

  $2,883,665

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,280,084

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,450,071

  Expenses

  $2,392,878

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,136,967

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,971,266

  Expenses

  $2,142,106

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,968,572

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

• Whispering Sands Condo Assoc Inc

  $69,650

  2022 · Lighting

• Florida State University

  $65,280

  2022 · Research

• Loggerhead Marine Life Center

  $62,505

  2023 · ConservationResearch

• The Players Club Association Inc

  $57,235

  2023 · Lighting Dune

• Loggerhead Marine Life Center

  $53,848

  2022 · ConservationResearch

• CSC Holdings LLC

  $45,500

  2022 · Lighting

• Ocean Sands Condominiums Inc

  $44,019

  2022 · Lighting Dune Planting

• Atlantic Hotel Group Assets LLC

  $42,000

  2022 · Lighting

• Florida State Parks Found

  $41,817

  2023 · ConservationEducation

• White Sands Villas Condo Assoc Inc

  $41,088

  2022 · Lighting

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $1,408,908

  2024 · STEWARDSHIP OF NESTING SEA TURTLES

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $1,070,824

  2022 · MITIGATING LIGHT POLLUTION

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $649,148

  2023 · IMPROVING LIGHT RULES FOR SEA TURTLES IN FLORIDA

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $124,400

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COASTAL WILDLIFE CLUB INC

  $30,000

  2024 · Sea Turtle Satellite Tagging

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $29,675

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• COASTAL WILDLIFE CLUB INC

  $28,000

  2025 · Sea Turtle Satellite Tagging

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $26,102

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $25,610

  2023 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $24,375

  2022 · INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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

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