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PENNSYLVANIA LAKE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY

EIN 23-2569587 MERTZTOWN, PA

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Revenue 2024
$168,728
Expenses 2024
$290,616

Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 171

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

TO PROMOTE THE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING OF PONDS, LAKES, RESERVOIRS AND IMPOUNDMENTS AND THEIR WATERSHEDS; THE ECOSYSTEMS OF WHICH THEY ARE A PART; AND THEIR PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PENNSYLVANIA LAKE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY (PALMS) MISSION IS TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING AND COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF LAKES AND RESERVOIRS AND THEIR WATERSHEDS.

  • PASS THROUGH STATE GRANT FUNDS TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOURCES FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAKES AND PONDS IN PENNSYLVANIA

    Expenses $278,520 · Grants $164,500

  • PROMOTE AND PROVIDE A FORUM THROUGH AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE AND LOCAL WORKSHOPS FOR SHARING FACTUAL INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCES ON SCIENTIFIC, ADMINISTRATIVE, LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF LAKE AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT.

    Expenses $8,888 · Revenue $29,373

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.

  • Brian Pilarcik

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kate Harms

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $54,815
    From this org
    $54,815
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Josh Burnside

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Robert Schindler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joe Pinkerton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jeanette Schnass

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Nick Spinelli

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Ed Molesky

    PRESIDENT ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gretchen Schatschneider

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Joseph Hudson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $168,728
    Expenses
    $290,616
    Contributions
    $137,954
    Grants paid
    $164,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $277,480
    Expenses
    $261,955
    Contributions
    $249,111
    Grants paid
    $186,023
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $127,843
    Expenses
    $94,395
    Contributions
    $107,788
    Grants paid
    $23,993

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
    $205,593
    Expenses
    $142,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,861
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,242
    Expenses
    $77,027
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,582
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $99,174
    Expenses
    $78,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,367
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $68,389
    Expenses
    $38,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,603
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,022
    Expenses
    $25,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,885
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,241
    Expenses
    $29,629
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,421
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,271
    Expenses
    $77,988
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,809
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $168,228
    Expenses
    $135,856
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,526
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,442
    Expenses
    $102,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,154
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $160,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,619

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period
1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009
Principal officer
Kerilynn Frey
Mailing address
PO Box 111Huntington Mills PA 18622
Website
www.palakes.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • 2023 LAKE ALDEN HYDRILLA CONTROL PROJECT

  • WAYNEWOOD ASSOCIATION

    $24,000

    2023 LAKE WAYNEWOOD POLYALUMINUM CHLORIDE APPLICATION

  • 2023 RAYSTOWN LAKE SHORELINE ENHANCEMENT PROJECT

  • SPINNLER POINT COLONY ASSOCATION

    $24,000

    2023 STORMWATER BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

  • BERKS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT

    $23,993

    2022 BLUE MARSH LAKE SHORELINE REHAB

  • LAKE SHERIDAN COTTAGERS ASSOCIATION

    $23,986

    2024 LAKE SHERIDAN IN LAKE PHOSPHORUS REDUCTION PROJECT

  • LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

    $23,984

    2024 DONEGAL LAKE MINI GRANT

  • 2023 RESTORATION OF EDGEWOOD LAKE

  • 2023 NUTRIENT REDUCTION AND PHOSLOCK APPLICATION

  • BIRCHWOOD LAKES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

    $22,423

    2024 MIDDLE BIRCHWOOD LAKE IN LAKE PHOSPHORUS REDUCTION PROJECT

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.