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EIN 45-3220205 MANHATTAN BCH, CA

Revenue 2024
$4,046,029
Expenses 2024
$3,533,930

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C27
Classification
1000
Street
754 26TH ST

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).

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.

  • KEVIN WHILDEN

    CO-FOUNDER/ DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $168,303
    From this org
    $150,778
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,525
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $137,528
    Bonus
    $13,250
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,325
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,200
    Filer's total
    $168,303

  • MICHAEL STEWART

    CO-FOUNDER/ DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $180,505
    From this org
    $154,264
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,241
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,014
    Bonus
    $13,250
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,182
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,059
    Filer's total
    $180,505

  • JIM MORIARTY

    EX-BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN TIGHE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE SHIPSEY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANNI WASHINGTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARIA GONZALEZ-BLANCH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN THURSTON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUSTIN WILKENFELD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHY CAMPBELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARNE ARENS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY DYNAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXANDRA VON WINTERFELDT

    FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $120,905
    From this org
    $102,413
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,492
    Hours/week
    40

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 — 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
    $4,046,029
    Expenses
    $3,533,930
    Contributions
    $3,200,579
    Grants paid
    $480,012
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,433,386
    Expenses
    $2,788,402
    Contributions
    $3,384,193
    Grants paid
    $82,250
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,486,342
    Expenses
    $2,010,864
    Contributions
    $2,441,495
    Grants paid
    $130,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,471,342
    Expenses
    $2,030,539
    Contributions
    $2,426,495
    Grants paid
    $130,000

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.

Grants made

  • SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

    $330,000

    2024 FOR THE PURPOSES OF TESTING MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS OF RESTORING KELP, INCL. OUTPLANTING LAB-GROWN JUVENILES AND IDENTIFYING IF THESE MORE THERMALLY-TOLERANT STRAINS BETTER SURVIVE A WARMING CLIMATE.

  • SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

    $130,000

    2022 FOR THE PURPOSES OF BUILDING CAPACITY TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE METHODS FOR CARBON ACCOUNTING IN KELP FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOR THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY AT UC SAN DIEGO.

  • PHILANTHROPY WORKS

    $100,000

    2024 TO SPONSOR ARTIST TO BUILD A BIODIVERSITY BLOCKS MONUMENT TO PROMOTE BIODIVERSITY CREDIT SYSTEM.

  • SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

    $82,250

    2023 FOR THE PURPOSES OF TESTING MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS OF RESTORING KELP, INCL. OUTPLANTING LAB-GROWN JUVENILES AND IDENTIFYING IF THESE MORE THERMALLY-TOLERANT STRAINS BETTER SURVIVE A WARMING CLIMATE.

  • UC SAN DIEGO

    $50,000

    2024 TO DO A SCIENCE RESEARCH FOR A KELP SCIENCE PROJECT

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.