CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U310

Classification

1000

Street

65-1120 MAMALAHOA HWY

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

• SEE SCHEDULE O

  Expenses $28,059,023 · Grants $1,686,829 · Revenue $25,913,080

• PUBLIC INFORMATION:KECK OBSERVATORY'S EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION PROGRAMS TELL OUR STORY OF SCIENCE, STEWARDSHIP, AND COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFFIRM THE OBSERVATORY'S ROLE AS A GLOBAL SCIENCE LEADER ROOTED IN HAWAII. ACTIVITIES INCLUDE PUBLIC ASTRONOMY TALKS, SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN CLASSROOMS AND COMMUNITY EVENTS, FACILITY TOURS, AND SHARING DISCOVERIES OVER DIGITAL PLATFORMS. OUR AUDIENCE IS GLOBAL WITH OVER 86,000 ASTRONOMY PROFESSIONALS AND ENTHUSIASTS ACROSS OUR DIGITAL PLATFORMS, AND WE EMPHASIZE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE LOCAL HAWAII COMMUNITY.

  Expenses $351,696

• RESEARCH:KECK OBSERVATORY'S ACTIVITIES INCLUDE SUBMITTING GRANT PROPOSALS TO CARRY OUT SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS.

  Expenses $256,389

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $30,106,569

  Expenses

  $33,961,961

  Contributions

  $2,148,140

  Grants paid

  $1,686,829

• 2023

  Revenue

  $30,370,507

  Expenses

  $32,945,269

  Contributions

  $1,878,717

  Grants paid

  $3,375,548

• 2022

  Revenue

  $29,589,145

  Expenses

  $44,659,977

  Contributions

  $4,893,022

  Grants paid

  $4,723,499

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

  $28,518,344

  Expenses

  $29,041,238

  Assets (EOY)

  $76,552,850

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $25,670,237

  Expenses

  $27,057,390

  Assets (EOY)

  $81,069,087

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $30,112,680

  Expenses

  $28,105,059

  Assets (EOY)

  $78,030,998

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $26,312,535

  Expenses

  $28,830,960

  Assets (EOY)

  $74,222,300

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $47,637,791

  Expenses

  $28,930,529

  Assets (EOY)

  $75,006,666

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,532,144

  Expenses

  $25,554,482

  Assets (EOY)

  $70,473,602

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,736,872

  Expenses

  $24,401,705

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,880,476

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $23,498,014

  Expenses

  $23,175,488

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,553,204

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $22,539,281

  Expenses

  $23,919,733

  Assets (EOY)

  $69,949,463

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $22,904,841

  Assets (EOY)

  $72,734,062

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

• CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  $2,095,917

  2022 · AWARD OF $81,041 FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE NIRC-2 DETECTOR; AWARD OF $213,284 FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE DEIMOS DETECTOR; SUB-AWARD OF $245,572 UNDER THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION FUNDED PRIME AWARD DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF A LASER FREQUENCY COMB; SUB-AWARD OF $564,385 UNDER THE GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION FUNDED PRIME AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH FOR EXOPLANET CHARACTERIZATION; SUB-AWARD OF $780,867 UNDER THE MT CUBA AND MOORE FOUNDATION FUNDED AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT THE KECK COSMIC WEB IMAGER REIONIZATION MAPPER; SUB-AWARD OF $120,000 UNDER THE SCOTT FOUNDATION FUNDED AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KECK PLANET FINDER SOLAR CALIBRATOR; AWARD OF $90,768 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KECK PLANET FINDER.

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

  $1,335,164

  2023 · AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SLICER COMBINED WITH AN ARRAY OF LENSLETS FOR EXOPLANET SPECTROSCOPY.

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

  $1,261,677

  2022 · SUB-AWARD OF $4,888 UNDER THE MT CUBA AND MOORE FOUNDATION FUNDED AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT THE KECK COSMIC WEB IMAGER REIONIZATION MAPPER; AWARD OF $1,256,789 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SLICER COMBINED WITH AN ARRAY OF LENSLETS FOR EXOPLANET SPECTROSCOPY.

• UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME

  $690,374

  2023 · AWARD FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE DEIMOS DETECTOR.

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

  $611,067

  2024 · AWARD FOR ASTROPHYSICS ENABLED BY HIGH ORDER ADVANCED KECK ADAPTIVE OPTICS (HAKA); AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SLICER COMBINED WITH AN ARRAY OF LENSLETS FOR EXOPLANET SPECTROSCOPY SCALES

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  $573,908

  2022 · SUB-AWARD OF $160,405 UNDER THE FEDERALLY FUNDED AST-1836016 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTROPHYSICS ENABLED BY KECK ALL SKY PRECISION ADAPTIVE OPTICS; SUB-AWARD OF $366,521 UNDER THE GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION FUNDED PRIME AWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH FOR EXOPLANET CHARACTERIZATION; SUB-AWARD OF $46,982 UNDER THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION FUNDED PRIME AWARD DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF A LASER FREQUENCY COMB.

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

  $553,654

  2023 · SUB-AWARD UNDER THE FEDERALLY FUNDED AST-1836016 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTROPHYSICS ENABLED BY KECK ALL SKY PRECISION ADAPTIVE OPTICS; SUBAWARD UNDER THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION FOR KECK PLANET FINDER PRECISIN IMPROVEMENTS; SUBAWARD FOR KECK PLANET FINDER MECHANICAL COOLING UPGRADE; AWARD FOR UPGRADE OF NIRC2 PRECISION CALIBRATION UNIT.

• CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  $526,813

  2024 · SUBAWARD FOR KCWI MECHANICAL COOLING RETROFIT; AWARD FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE DEIMOS DETECTOR

• CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  $489,792

  2023 · SUB-AWARD UNDER THE HEISING-SIMONS FOUNDATION FUNDED PRIME AWARD DEVELOPMENT AND FABRICATION OF A LASER FREQUENCY COMB; SUBAWARD FOR KCWI MECHANICAL COOLING RETROFIT; AWARD FOR THE UPGRADE OF THE DEIMOS DETECTOR; ASSISTANCE FOR NEW INSTRUMENT DESIGN STUDIES, INSTRUMENT UPGRADE PROPOSALS, AND OTHER PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE THE OBSERVATORYS SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY.

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

  $300,280

  2024 · SUBAWARD FOR KECK PLANET FINDER MECHANICAL COOLING UPGRADE

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $69,550

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

• AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · SCIENCE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $31,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $30,100

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2022 · EDUCATION

• RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

  $20,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $16,000

  2023 · PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $16,000

  2023 · EDUCATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $11,600

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

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

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