SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D013

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 7750

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

• CONSERVATION CAMPAIGNS:DURING 2024, 4 SHIPS (SEAHORSE, MARTIN SHEEN, BOB BARKER AND MARTIN SHEEN) WERE IN OPERATION TO SUPPORT THE VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS.OPERATION MILAGRO: IT WAS OUR 11TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR WORKING ON THE FRONT LINES TO PROTECT THE WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED MARINE MAMMAL, THE VAQUITA PORPOISE, ALONG WITH THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER TOTOABA. THE TOTOABA IS VALUABLE AND IN HIGH DEMAND BY CARTELS FROM MEXICO AND ASIA. WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MEXICAN NAVY, SSCS VESSELS WERE ON THE FRONT LINES, TO STAND AGAINST THE CARTELS AND PREVENT THIS SPECIES FROM TOTAL EXTINCTION.(CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)OPERATION ANTARCTICA: SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY HAS PARTNERED WITH SEA SHEPHERD GLOBAL TO CHALLENGE THE KRILL INDUSTRY TRAWLERS AND ITS DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOITATION OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN.OPERATION FAROE: CAMPAIGN AIMS TO EXPOSE AND END THE TRADITIONAL GRINDADRPTHE MASS KILLING OF PILOT WHALES AND OTHER SMALL CETACEANS. SINCE 2014, THE CAMPAIGN HAS FOCUSED ON DOCUMENTING THE HUNTS, RAISING GLOBAL AWARENESS, AND CHALLENGING THEIR LEGALITY UNDER EU CONSERVATION LAWS. DESPITE RESISTANCE, SEA SHEPHERD'S EFFORTS HAVE BROUGHT INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION TO THE ISSUE AND CONTINUE TO PRESSURE FOR CHANGE THROUGH NON-VIOLENT INTERVENTION AND ADVOCACY.BAJOS DEL NORTE CAMPAIGN: IS A COLLABORATIVE MARINE CONSERVATION EFFORT FOCUSED ON PROTECTING A CRITICAL REEF SYSTEM IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. PARTNERING WITH THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL AGENCIES, THE CAMPAIGN INVOLVES SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, MONITORING, AND ENFORCEMENT TO SAFEGUARD BIODIVERSITY IN THIS ECOLOGICALLY RICH AREA. THE MISSION AIMS TO COMBAT ILLEGAL FISHING, PRESERVE CORAL REEF HEALTH, AND SUPPORT THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF MARINE LIFE THROUGH DIRECT ACTION AND DATA-DRIVEN CONSERVATION.ULLOA CAMPAIGN: SEA SHEPHERD'S ULLOA CAMPAIGN WAS A PLANNED INITIATIVE AIMED AT PROTECTING MARINE BIODIVERSITY IN THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA, WITH A FOCUS ON THE ULLOA ARCHIPELAGO REGION. ALTHOUGH THE CAMPAIGN NEVER FORMALLY LAUNCHED, EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS WERE MADE TO SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT, MONITOR ILLEGAL FISHING, AND CONDUCT ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES. THE GROUNDWORK LAID FOR ULLOA REFLECTS SEA SHEPHERD'S CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING MEXICO'S MARINE ECOSYSTEMS.OPERATION REVILLAGIGEDO: SEA SHEPHERD'S VESSEL MARTIN SHEEN HAS RETURNED TO THE LARGEST MARINE PROTECTED AREA IN NORTH AMERICA TO ADVANCE THE SCIENCE AROUND WHALES AND INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT THEM.PANAMA: SEA SHEPHERD HAS CONCLUDED ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE MARINE PROTECTION ALLIANCE (MPA). WHILE THE INITIATIVE DID NOT CONTINUE LONG-TERM, SOME EFFORTS IN PANAMAWERE REALIZED, INCLUDING EARLY OPERATIONS AND GROUNDWORK. THE CLOSURE REFLECTS A STRATEGIC DECISION TO FOCUS RESOURCES ON CORE CONSERVATION CAMPAIGNS.

  Expenses $10,214,641 · Grants $1,116,753 · Revenue $81,421

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.

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

  $15,110,537

  Expenses

  $11,893,506

  Contributions

  $14,995,001

  Grants paid

  $1,116,753

• 2023

  Revenue

  $9,235,946

  Expenses

  $13,026,169

  Contributions

  $8,862,468

  Grants paid

  $2,982,132

• 2022

  Revenue

  $13,803,795

  Expenses

  $14,042,499

  Contributions

  $13,248,726

  Grants paid

  $612,120

• 2022

  Revenue

  $13,803,795

  Expenses

  $14,042,499

  Contributions

  $13,248,726

  Grants paid

  $612,120

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

  $11,000,824

  Expenses

  $8,083,366

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,672,611

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,807,277

  Expenses

  $12,315,265

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,927,247

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,630,508

  Expenses

  $7,619,111

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,647,449

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,752,954

  Expenses

  $7,818,304

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,815,754

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,618,229

  Expenses

  $6,055,354

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,977,630

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,524,026

  Expenses

  $6,008,239

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,599,458

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,716,783

  Expenses

  $6,003,688

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,867,714

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,556,878

  Expenses

  $6,272,410

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,245,149

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $10,981,181

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,877,124

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

• MARINE PROTECTION ALLIANCE

  $2,655,000

  2023 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• MARINE PROTECTION ALLIANCE

  $1,071,753

  2024 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• MARINE PROTECTION ALLIANCE

  $225,000

  2022 · OPERATING SUPPORT

• SEA SHEPHERD LEGAL

  $25,000

  2023 · OPERATING SUPPORT

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Grants received

• FRIENDS OF TOKI INC

  $325,959

  2023 · FOR FURTHER SEA CONSERVATION IN HONOR OF TOKI THE WHALE.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $259,429

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $228,336

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $221,250

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $180,561

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $179,280

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $147,995

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $142,811

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $131,700

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $118,153

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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