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NAUTICUS

EIN 54-1475802 NORFOLK, VA

Revenue 2024
$5,965,329
Expenses 2024
$4,395,363

Program services were 84.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1 WATERSIDE DRIVE

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

WE EXIST TO BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION, IMPACTFUL EXPERIENCES AND BY SHARING ACCESS TO MARITIME RESOURCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INSPIRE AND EDUCATE PEOPLE WITH ENGAGING AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES THAT CELEBRATE OUR CONNECTIONS WITH TODAY'S MARITIME WORLD. THE NAUTICUS IS A CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM THAT USES THE NATURAL SETTING OF NORFOLK'S HARBOR TO SHOWCASE GLOBAL MARITIME COMMERCE AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST NAVY.

  • NAUTICUS IS A MARITIME DISCOVERY CENTER LOCATED ALONG THE WATERFRONT IN DOWNTOWN, NORFOLK OFFERING A UNIQUE FORM OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR ALL AGES. THROUGH INTERACTIVE EXHIBITS AND STEM TO STERN PROGRAMMING, NAUTICUS USES THE MUSEUM, BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN, SAILING CENTER, AND SCHOONER VIRGINIA TO TELL THE STORY OF THE MARITIME ENVIRONMENT, INDUSTRY, AND THE MILITARY.

    Expenses $3,714,734 · Revenue $2,708,058

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • PAUL FRAIM

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN REINHART

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK HONECKER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KELSEY HOST SARCONE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARYELLEN BALDWIN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUDY BARRETT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH BEASLEY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WHITING CHISMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT CLARK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM CROW

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN GALLO

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE HOPKINS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELSPETH MCMAHON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT WILBRICHT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EDWARD WOLCOTT JR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • W CLARK TAYLOR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTOPHER UITERWYK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHEN KIRKLAND

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,965,329
    Expenses
    $4,395,363
    Contributions
    $3,077,248
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,876,320
    Expenses
    $4,263,089
    Contributions
    $8,072,437
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,286,378
    Expenses
    $10,167,914
    Contributions
    $6,710,906
    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
    $7,543,316
    Expenses
    $2,520,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,429,451

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,721,947
    Expenses
    $2,012,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,090,581

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,164,508
    Expenses
    $2,500,402
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,242,791

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,816,608
    Expenses
    $2,897,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,466,569

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,371,391
    Expenses
    $1,867,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,206,663

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,314,631
    Expenses
    $1,177,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,674,366

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,532,099
    Expenses
    $1,508,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,534,032

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,620,793
    Expenses
    $1,432,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,506,954

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,240,427
    Expenses
    $1,263,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,309,069

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,151,768
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,406,907

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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.

Declared on its 2024 return

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.