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FRIENDS OF THE MARIANA TRENCH

EIN 66-0896909 SAIPAN, MP

Largest nonprofits in Northern Mariana Islands

Revenue 2025
$356,145
Expenses 2025
$366,178

Program services were 93.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
2000
Street
PMB 162 PPP BOX 10000

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

Mission

To be the guardians of our ocean resources by empowering communities with ocean conservation strategies and research grounded in traditional teachings.

  • For the year ended December 31, 2025 the organization operated the following programs:Solving for X (S4X) - To establish Ocean Science Clubs (OSCs) across CNMI public high schools. The OSCs are led by club advisors and supported by FOMTs local volunteer network of college students (ENRO), community elders (Ocean Elders), and mid-career professionals (Ocean Conservation Corps).Mariana Trench Treasure Chest - To increase awareness and communicate the importance of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and its protection.

    Expenses $340,994

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.

  • Laurie Peterka

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $45,001
    From this org
    $45,001
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Sheila J Babauta

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Franco Santos

    Vice Chair/Tres

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christina Sablan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ignacio V Cabrera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angelo Villagomez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Romana Chong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kina Rangamar

    Director

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $356,145
    Expenses
    $366,178
    Contributions
    $356,145
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $245,976
    Expenses
    $280,452
    Contributions
    $245,943
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $199,197
    Expenses
    $269,935
    Contributions
    $199,163
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $118,940
    Expenses
    $246,170
    Contributions
    $118,940
    Grants paid
    $15,188

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
    $412,495
    Expenses
    $408,543
    Assets (EOY)
    $159,207

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,541
    Expenses
    $339,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,537

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 2019

Tax period
1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019
Principal officer
Ignacio V Cabrera
Mailing address
PMB 162 PPP Box 10000Saipan MP 96950CQ

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

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2012, reinstated 15 September 2018.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.