- 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.
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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.
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Paul HolthusPAUL 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
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Donna LanzettaDONNA LANZETTA
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Jacques DemersJACQUES DEMERS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Simon BennettSIMON BENNETT
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Lori KennedyLORI KENNEDY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Philip HermesPHILIP HERMES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Henk Van MuijenHENK VAN MUIJEN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Colleen MartinCOLLEEN MARTIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Stewart Sarkozy-BanoczySTEWART 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $721,867
- Expenses
- $658,817
- Contributions
- $487,704
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $655,391
- Expenses
- $791,454
- Contributions
- $382,431
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $367,951
- Expenses
- $342,667
- Assets (EOY)
- $240,460
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $234,237
- Expenses
- $376,293
- Assets (EOY)
- $76,301
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $498,079
- Expenses
- $587,272
- Assets (EOY)
- $74,610
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $489,487
- Expenses
- $604,493
- Assets (EOY)
- $122,542
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $451,031
- Expenses
- $509,526
- Assets (EOY)
- $139,287
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $457,582
- Expenses
- $590,182
- Assets (EOY)
- $176,481
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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
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$41,520
2025 START-UP INNOVATION
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.