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UPWELL TURTLES

EIN 82-1309235 MONTEREY, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$1,980,565
Expenses 2025
$1,479,404

Program services were 87.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
1000
Street
99 PACIFIC ST SUITE 375-E

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

To protect and recover endangered populations of turtles by reducing threats at sea.

  • Launched the first-ever dedicated aerial surveys for critically endangered West Pacific leatherback sea turtles in New Zealand watersa region where leatherback bycatch risk is high and information has been historically limited. Collaborating with the Government of New Zealand and regional partners, Upwell designed and implemented aerial surveys to establish the scientific foundation needed to inform future management and conservation actions. (Continued at Schedule O.)

    Expenses $1,295,286

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • George Shillinger Pres

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $222,304
    From this org
    $220,560
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,744
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $220,560
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,744
    Filer's total
    $222,304

  • Kristin Reed Operations

    Director

    Total calculated
    $116,423
    From this org
    $112,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,937
    Hours/week
    24

  • William Sullivan Chair

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Morris Director

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rodney Berens Director

    Secretary

    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. 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,980,565
    Expenses
    $1,479,404
    Contributions
    $1,955,072
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,200,884
    Expenses
    $1,269,504
    Contributions
    $1,154,013
    Grants paid
    $42,904
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,428,958
    Expenses
    $1,262,120
    Contributions
    $1,397,134
    Grants paid
    $2,051
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,194,121
    Expenses
    $1,270,084
    Contributions
    $1,159,788
    Grants paid
    $3,900

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
    $1,332,043
    Expenses
    $995,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,087,594

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,682
    Expenses
    $755,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $738,040

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,682
    Expenses
    $755,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $738,040

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,024,161
    Expenses
    $814,579
    Assets (EOY)
    $660,708

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $740,399
    Expenses
    $509,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $471,911

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $263,969
    Expenses
    $239,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,623

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

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.