- 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.
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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
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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.
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Brian PilarcikBRIAN PILARCIK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Kate HarmsKATE HARMS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $54,815
- From this org
- $54,815
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 15
-
Josh BurnsideJOSH BURNSIDE
PAST PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Robert SchindlerROBERT SCHINDLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Joe PinkertonJOE PINKERTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Jeanette SchnassJEANETTE SCHNASS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Nick SpinelliNICK SPINELLI
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Ed MoleskyED MOLESKY
PRESIDENT ELECT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Gretchen SchatschneiderGRETCHEN SCHATSCHNEIDER
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Joseph HudsonJOSEPH 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
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2023
- Revenue
- $277,480
- Expenses
- $261,955
- Contributions
- $249,111
- Grants paid
- $186,023
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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
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$24,000
2023 LAKE ALDEN HYDRILLA CONTROL PROJECT
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WAYNEWOOD ASSOCIATION
$24,000
2023 LAKE WAYNEWOOD POLYALUMINUM CHLORIDE APPLICATION
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$24,000
2023 RAYSTOWN LAKE SHORELINE ENHANCEMENT PROJECT
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SPINNLER POINT COLONY ASSOCATION
$24,000
2023 STORMWATER BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
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BERKS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT
$23,993
2022 BLUE MARSH LAKE SHORELINE REHAB
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LAKE SHERIDAN COTTAGERS ASSOCIATION
$23,986
2024 LAKE SHERIDAN IN LAKE PHOSPHORUS REDUCTION PROJECT
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LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
$23,984
2024 DONEGAL LAKE MINI GRANT
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$23,757
2023 RESTORATION OF EDGEWOOD LAKE
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2023 NUTRIENT REDUCTION AND PHOSLOCK APPLICATION
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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.
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.