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SAVE OUR SHORES

EIN 94-2745941 SANTA CRUZ, CA

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Revenue 2025
$498,918
Expenses 2025
$521,693

Program services were 72.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
345 LAKE AVE STE A

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 · 2025

Mission

THE ORGANIZATIONS MISSION IS TO STEWARD CLEAN SHORES, HEALTHY HABITATS, AND LIVINGWATERS TO FOSTER A THRIVING MONTEREY BAY AND MONTEREY BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY.WE FOCUS ON THESE THREE AREAS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THEY ARE THE MOST CRITICALCONDITIONS FOR A HEALTHY MARINE ECOSYSTEM.

  • Save Our Shores protects the Monterey Bay and Central Coast through integrated programs in advocacy, education, and community action. Advocacy efforts focus on advancing local and regional policies that prevent pollution at its source, including ordinances addressing single-use plastics and mobilizing public engagement to oppose offshore oil drilling. Education programs provide hands-on, science-based learning experiences that connect K12 students to coastal ecosystems, fostering environmental literacy and stewardship, with a focus on reaching underserved communities. Community action programs engage thousands of volunteers in beach and river cleanups, removing marine debris while collecting data that informs community science and strengthens policy initiatives.

    Expenses $376,681 · Revenue $135,134

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kathleen Thompson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $110,256
    From this org
    $110,256
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Michael Jones

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cathleen Eckhardt

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Curtiss

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lucas Roy Lehman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Justin Cummings

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alejandro Garcia

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Charles Lester

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jane Silberstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tonia MacLean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Carr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Taylor Williams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shane McKeithen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $498,918
    Expenses
    $521,693
    Contributions
    $359,210
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $719,552
    Expenses
    $623,280
    Contributions
    $528,686
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $552,280
    Expenses
    $590,776
    Contributions
    $368,003
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $565,104
    Expenses
    $460,770
    Contributions
    $449,793
    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
    $558,453
    Expenses
    $507,769
    Assets (EOY)
    $310,343

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $445,788
    Expenses
    $456,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $231,264

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $534,101
    Expenses
    $576,229
    Assets (EOY)
    $249,569

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $674,797
    Expenses
    $558,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $270,071

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $557,583
    Expenses
    $549,824
    Assets (EOY)
    $177,632

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,186
    Expenses
    $582,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $197,263

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $455,680
    Expenses
    $468,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $155,572

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,290
    Expenses
    $701,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $246,405

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $583,935
    Expenses
    $606,237
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,690

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

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

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 13 October 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.