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WORLD OCEAN COUNCIL

EIN 27-4398298 VIENNA, VA

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Revenue 2024
$721,867
Expenses 2024
$658,817

Program services were 82.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U21
Classification
2000
Street
344 MAPLE AVENUE WEST STE 238

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

THE WORLD OCEAN COUNCIL ENCOURAGES, PROMOTES, AND DEVELOPS AWARENESS WITHIN THE OCEAN INDUSTRY AND THE WIDER PUBLIC OF THE NEED FOR A HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL OCEAN AND PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE OCEAN USES.

  • WOC ADVANCED ITS MISSION TO BRING TOGETHER OCEAN INDUSTRIES IN COLLABORATIVE ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE STEWARDSHIP OF THE SEAS. DURING THE YEAR, WOC: CONVENED MULTI-SECTOR LEADERSHIP DIALOGUES INVOLVING STAKEHOLDERS FROM SHIPPING, PORTS, FISHERIES, AND FINANCE. PROVIDED A NEUTRAL PLATFORM FOR CROSS-INDUSTRY COORDINATION ON OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES, INCLUDING MARITIME DECARBONIZATION, BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION, AND MARITIME RISK. EXECUTED GRANT-FUNDED WORK RELATED TO OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY. DELIVERED YEAR-ROUND VALUE TO ITS GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY AND BROADENED PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION ON OCEAN SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS, EVENTS, AND OUTREACH.

    Expenses $543,658 · Revenue $203,981

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Paul Holthus

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $189,000
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $9,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $189,000
  • Donna Lanzetta

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jacques Demers

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Simon Bennett

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Lori Kennedy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Philip Hermes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Henk Van Muijen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Colleen Martin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5
  • Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy

    LEGAL REPRES

    Total calculated
    $117,000
    From this org
    $117,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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. 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $721,867
    Expenses
    $658,817
    Contributions
    $487,704
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $655,391
    Expenses
    $791,454
    Contributions
    $382,431
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,256,659
    Expenses
    $1,187,127
    Contributions
    $416,584
    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
    $367,951
    Expenses
    $342,667
    Assets (EOY)
    $240,460
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $234,237
    Expenses
    $376,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,301
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $498,079
    Expenses
    $587,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,610
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,487
    Expenses
    $604,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,542
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $451,031
    Expenses
    $509,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,287
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $457,582
    Expenses
    $590,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $176,481
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $608,108
    Expenses
    $795,466
    Assets (EOY)
    $325,756

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2013, reinstated 15 May 2013.

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.