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MSRW

EIN 83-1936124 PETOSKEY, MI

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Revenue 2025
$241,865
Expenses 2025
$142,040

Program services were 78.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 465

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

Scientific Research on the migration of birds in the Straits of Mackinac located between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. We also engage in educational and public information associated with this research.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Scientific Research on the migration of birds in the Straits of Mackinac located between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. We also engage in education and public information associated with this research.

  • Owl Banding and Research. Owls are netted and banded during the spring and fall migration. Data on the owls is recorded and shared with appropriate scientific research groups. In 2025 475 owls were captured and tagged.Northern Saw Whet Owls are the primary species studied but other species are tagged when caught.

    Expenses $22,130 · Grants $26,360

  • Hawk Count by species during Spring and Fall migrations. During the Spring and Fall raptors of 20 different species were counted and categorized by day. During the spring and fall migration 75418 raptors were counted and categorized in Mackinaw City and 8070 on Mackinac Island All data was recorded and shared with other scientific organizations. In 2025 MSRW caught and banded 127 raptors representing 8 species The birds were safely released. Red-tailed Hawks that were fitted with transmitters over the last four years continue to be monitored.

    Expenses $31,721 · Grants $20,936

  • Water bird migration during 2025 migrants representing 52 different species were counted. The results were tabulated by day and recorded. Data was shared with appropriate scientific research organizations.

    Expenses $8,582 · Grants $6,500

  • MSRW provides public information and education through a Raptor Naturalist program at the count sites. The naturalist provides information to the public, verbal and in print, about the birds that are seen overhead and explains the count techniques. In addition, the organization administrator and contractual researchers are available to give talks about the organization's research activities and goals.

    Expenses $10,399

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $38,532 · Grants $16,100

  • A pilot project in the fall of 2025 was begun to band songbirds. there were 127 birds from 32 species that were banded representing 55.75 volunteer hours of netting and banding.

  • In 2025 Monarch Butterflies were tagged in the fall as they begin their migration to Mexico. The microtags are registered with the national Monarch tracking organization so that there might be tracking of individual butterflies who are found in Mexico. Over 100 butterflies were tagged by volunteers.

    Expenses $20

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Scott Davis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $38,800
    From this org
    $38,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Russ Edmonds

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Jon Frederickson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Michael Turisk

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Will Peregord

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Linda Orlow

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michelle Perigord

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Allye Kemme

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Mary Whitmore

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Sue Kurtz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Gayle Kirby

    Chairmen

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Catherine T Freebairn

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jeff Dykehouse

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $241,865
    Expenses
    $142,040
    Contributions
    $241,865
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $188,968
    Expenses
    $167,760
    Contributions
    $187,632
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $231,175
    Expenses
    $158,185
    Contributions
    $231,175
    Grants paid
    $2,400
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $185,305
    Expenses
    $113,247
    Contributions
    $186,861
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $185,305
    Expenses
    $113,247
    Contributions
    $186,861
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $146,062
    Expenses
    $68,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $209,473

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $129,341
    Expenses
    $46,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,502

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 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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.