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THE BEACON INSTITUTE INC

EIN 14-1883215 POTSDAM, NY

Revenue 2023
not reported
Expenses 2023
not reported

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U21
Classification
8000
Street
8 CLARKSON AVE

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 · 2023

Primary exempt purpose

BEACON INSTITUTE, LOCATED IN BEACON (DUCHESS COUNTY), NEW YORK, IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION WITH THE MISSION TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A GLOBAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THAT ADVANCES RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICY REGARDING RIVERS AND ESTUARIES. BEACON INSTITUTE IMPLEMENTS ITS MISSION THROUGH A MULTI-DICIPLINARY FOCUS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, AND POLICY.

  • CLARKSON'S BEACON INSTITUTE COORDINATED ECOLOGY RESEARCH ON TERRESTRIAL PLANT SPECIES, AND CITIZEN SCIENCE SURVEYS REPORTING DATA FOR BEACH MARINE DEBRIS ON DENNING'S POINT. COLLABORATIONS WITH CLARKSON FACULTY INCLUDED RESEARCH ON AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE HUDSON RIVER, AND SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES ON HEALTH WATERS AND EMERGING CONTAMINANTS.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ROBERT R ZIEK JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DAVID HEACOCK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARC CHRISTENSEN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JEFFREY IVES

    SECRETARY & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • KELLY CHEZUM

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    not reported

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
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,749
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,496
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $0
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,422
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $53,241
    Expenses
    $53,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $129,265
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $118,420
    Expenses
    $118,595
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,872
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,442,578
    Expenses
    $1,442,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $547,021
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $948,108
    Expenses
    $948,371
    Assets (EOY)
    $322,102
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,595,623
    Expenses
    $3,587,589
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,486,380
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,371,136
    Expenses
    $5,388,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,163,238
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,735,722
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,753,473

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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.