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TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK

EIN 91-1818080 FOREST KNOLLS, CA

Revenue 2023
$1,745,857
Expenses 2023
$1,530,769

Program services were 73.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 370

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 · 2023

Mission

TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD TO PROTECT MARINE WILDLIFE AND THE OCEANS AND INLAND WATERSHEDS THAT SUSTAIN THEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK IS A LEADING ADVOCATE FOR THE WORLD'S OCEANS AND MARINE WILDLIFE. OUR WORK IS BASED ON SCIENCE, FUELED BY PEOPLE WHO CARE, AND EFFECTIVE AT CATALYZING LONG-LASTING POSITIVE CHANGE THAT PROTECTS THE LIKES OF GREEN SEA TURTLES, WHALE SHARKS, AND COHO SALMON.

  • TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK WORKS TO RECOVER ENDANGERED MARINE SPECIES THROUGH HANDS-ON CONSERVATION, RESEARCH, BIOLOGICAL MONITORING, AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS. THROUGH ITS OCEANS PROTECTION PROGRAMS, THE ORGANIZATION WORKS TO REFORM FISHERIES POLICIES, CREATE MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, SAFEGUARD KEY SEA TURTLE NESTING BEACH HABITATS, BUILD COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND EDUCATE MORE THAN 3,000 STUDENTS EACH YEAR. SINCE 1989, IT HAS WORKED TO PROTECT AND RESTORE POPULATIONS OF ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES AND THEIR HABITATS. TODAY THE ORGANIZATION USES ITS SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO SAFEGUARD WHALES, DOLPHINS, SEALS, SEABIRDS, SHARKS, AND OTHER MARINE LIFE. IN SO DOING IT ALSO PROTECTS HUMAN COMMUNITIES WHICH RELY ON HEALTHY OCEANS ECOSYSTEMS FOR NUTRITIONAL, AESTHETIC, SPIRITUAL, AND RECREATIONAL NOURISHMENT. THROUGH ITS CALIFORNIA-BASED WATERSHED PROGRAM, TURTLE ISLAND ALSO WORKS TO PROTECT THE LARGEST SURVIVING POPULATION OF THE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED WILD COHO SALMON AND STEELHEAD TROUT BY RESTORING HABITAT AND ENGAGING HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS EACH YEAR TO RAISE NATIVE PLANTS. IT MONITORS SPAWNING SALMON AND JUVENILE SURVIVAL, ASSISTS LANDOWNERS TO PROTECT CREEKS FROM EROSION, AND EDUCATES THE PUBLIC TO THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY RIVER AND CREEK ECOSYSTEMS. IT SECURES MAJOR WILDLIFE AGENCY GRANTS FOR SALMON HABITAT RESTORATION.TURTLE ISLAND ALSO ACQUIRES LAND TO PROTECT WATERSHEDS AND PROVIDES FIELD AND CLASSROOM WATERSHED EDUCATION TO MORE THAN 500 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA STUDENTS EACH YEAR.

    Expenses $1,120,493 · Grants $10,000 · Revenue $75,635

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Todd Steiner

    EXEC DIR THROUGH 6/2024 / CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $130,578
    From this org
    $115,577
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,001
    Hours/week
    40

  • Gail Yamamoto Seymour

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Teri Shore

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Randall Arauz

    BOARD MEMBER THROUGH 4/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brock Cahill

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Deb Castellena

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ken Bouley

    EXEC DIR START 6/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,745,857
    Expenses
    $1,530,769
    Contributions
    $1,640,998
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,136,870
    Expenses
    $1,939,055
    Contributions
    $1,853,732
    Grants paid
    $10,000

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
    $3,485,198
    Expenses
    $3,316,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,579,295

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,287,437
    Expenses
    $3,008,193
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,076,993

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,371,412
    Expenses
    $2,303,178
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,069,358

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,171,691
    Expenses
    $2,806,030
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,603,144

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,702,059
    Expenses
    $1,558,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,306,247

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,890,478
    Expenses
    $1,669,147
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,024,278

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,482,962
    Expenses
    $1,515,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,641,402

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,831,261
    Expenses
    $1,705,888
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,320,612

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,954,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,432,916

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $421 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $175 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $905 raised

    2023 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $535 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $1,015 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $661 to charity

  • DONATE FOR CHARITY INC.

    $5,725 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $3,616 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.