CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C053

Classification

2000

Street

5 HOLWAY 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 · 2025

• CCS OPERATIONS INCLUDE COASTAL AND MARINE RESEARCH IN AND AROUND CAPE COD BAY INCLUDING WATER CHEMISTRY, GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY (WHALE, SHARK, AND SEAL POPULATION AND HABITAT EVALUATIONS), MARINE FISHERIES, NEARSHORE HABITAT ASSESSMENTS, COASTAL PLANNING, MAPPING, AND MARINE POLICY. IN ADDITION, CCS CONDUCTS MARINE PLASTIC RESEARCH AND A ROBUST MARINE DEBRIS RECOVERY PROGRAM AND DOES EXTENSIVE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR K-GRAY AUDIENCES. CCS' MARINE DISENTANGLEMENT PROGRAM PROVIDES LOCAL MARINE MAMMAL AND SEA TURTLE RESCUE AND INFORMS INTERNATIONAL GROUPS THROUGH EQUIPMENT PROVISION AND TRAINING. CCS' OPERATES EXHIBIT SPACE AND TWO SEASONAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS.

  Expenses $6,674,578

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.

The first 25 listed. 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. 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $16,321,032

  Expenses

  $8,581,191

  Contributions

  $15,896,754

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $10,155,771

  Expenses

  $7,609,996

  Contributions

  $9,895,040

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,754,681

  Expenses

  $6,013,925

  Contributions

  $6,546,689

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,311,067

  Expenses

  $5,331,055

  Contributions

  $6,191,900

  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

  $5,055,340

  Expenses

  $4,619,435

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,273,659

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,305,433

  Expenses

  $4,143,201

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,779,519

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,057,066

  Expenses

  $3,847,896

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,634,887

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,401,282

  Expenses

  $3,440,208

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,439,472

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,473,815

  Expenses

  $3,586,500

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,383,085

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,147,405

  Expenses

  $3,222,520

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,314,465

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,678,503

  Expenses

  $3,204,951

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,112,148

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,935,259

  Expenses

  $2,801,146

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,019,924

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,507,341

  Expenses

  $2,500,775

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,839,067

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,468,677

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,841,528

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

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $769,250

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $389,685

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $300,000

  2024 · SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $271,387

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $144,927

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $138,760

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $136,750

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $124,017

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $116,478

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $106,500

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT & ANIMAL PROTECTION

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

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