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ALASKA ESKIMO WHALING COMMISSION

EIN 92-0081760 BARROW, AK

Largest nonprofits in Alaska

Revenue 2024
$2,906,938
Expenses 2024
$2,913,888

Program services were 86.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
8200
Street
PO BOX 570

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

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo subsistence Bowhead whaling, and the Eskimo culture and traditions associated with Bowhead whales as well as whaling through research and educational activities related to Bowhead whales.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To safeguard the bowhead whale and its habitat, to defend the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Rights of our members, and to preserve the cultural and traditional values of our communities.

  • Bowhead Preservation - Accounts for all the activities related to the protection of habitat, Eskimo subsistence, and Eskimo culture and traditions associated with Bowhead whales.

    Expenses $2,526,363 · Revenue $35,703

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.

  • Lesley Hopson

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $114,461
    From this org
    $98,861
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,600
    Hours/week
    38

  • John Hopson

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $36,600
    From this org
    $36,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Herber Kinneeveauk III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $27,900
    From this org
    $27,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Crawford Patkotak

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $22,800
    From this org
    $22,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • George Kaleak Sr

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $22,650
    From this org
    $22,650
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Peter Ozenna

    Director

    Total calculated
    $13,200
    From this org
    $13,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Edmond Apassingok

    Director

    Total calculated
    $12,000
    From this org
    $12,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Waghiyi Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,700
    From this org
    $11,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Julius Rexford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $11,100
    From this org
    $11,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Enoch Adams Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $7,500
    From this org
    $7,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michael Ahkinga Sr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $5,700
    From this org
    $5,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Thomas Napageak

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $3,900
    From this org
    $3,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ira Itta

    Director

    Total calculated
    $2,100
    From this org
    $2,100
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $2,906,938
    Expenses
    $2,913,888
    Contributions
    $2,752,226
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,947,632
    Expenses
    $2,089,771
    Contributions
    $1,806,719
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,366,310
    Expenses
    $2,282,675
    Contributions
    $2,180,274
    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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,436,931
    Expenses
    $2,214,955
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,628,405

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,524,710
    Expenses
    $1,876,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,489,713

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,119,521
    Expenses
    $2,564,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,047,585

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,379,516
    Expenses
    $2,172,379
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,283,943

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,973,593
    Expenses
    $1,985,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,077

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,973,593
    Expenses
    $1,985,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $971,077

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

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.