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OCEAN RESEARCH PROJECT INC

EIN 45-5439654 ANNAPOLIS, MD

Largest nonprofits in Maryland

Revenue 2024
$267,950
Expenses 2024
$262,400

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
612 THIRD 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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PERFORM AND GATHER RESEARCH DATA ON CLIMATE CHANGE FROM A RESEARCH VESSEL TO HELP THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY PREPARE FOR SEA LEVEL RISE AND CHANGING FOOD SOURCES IN THE OCEANS.

  • EXPEDITION TO MAP SEA FLOOR CHANGES IN ARTIC FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED TO SEABED 2030.

    Expenses $232,233 · Revenue $267,950

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.

  • Matthew Rutherford

    PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16
  • Nicole Trenholm

    VICE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    16
  • Brian Roberts

    TREASURER AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gregory Walker

    SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ian Dalziel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Desimon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leslie Studdard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Arias

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $267,950
    Expenses
    $262,400
    Contributions
    $267,950
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $272,308
    Expenses
    $271,955
    Contributions
    $272,308
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $186,825
    Expenses
    $210,598
    Contributions
    $186,825
    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
    $300,672
    Expenses
    $259,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,056
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $105,806
    Expenses
    $93,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,960
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $72,742
    Expenses
    $78,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,963

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019
Principal officer
Matthew Rutherford
Mailing address
990 AWALD RDAnnapolis MD 21403

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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.