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SOUTH SOUND ESTUARY ASSOCIATION

EIN 39-2076160 OLYMPIA, WA

Revenue 2025
$474,642
Expenses 2025
$650,354

Program services were 21.5% 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
PO BOX 2182

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

Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary subjects.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to learn about, enjoy and protect Puget Sound.

  • Aquarium and marine science facility where staff and volunteers guide students and adults to learn about South Puget Sound through a variety of educational opportunities

    Expenses $101,841 · Revenue $173,477

  • K-12 STEM and career focused marine/estuary education offered at schools, on field trips or virtually to students from regional K-12 schools and home-school groups

    Expenses $29,453 · Revenue $41,623

  • Marine/estuary education and outreach to the general public. Staff and volunteer docents provide: intertidal marine life interpretation at local beaches during weekend summer low-tides; underwater viewing of marine life at night from a local pier; interpretative walks of downtown Olympia's historic shoreline, focusing on the cultural and industrial history; lead bird walks to identify the birds that live near and depend on a healthy Puget Sound;robotic exploration of under sea life

    Expenses $8,217 · Revenue $15,049

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.

  • Hap Clemons

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $59,339
    From this org
    $59,339
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Kylie Rench

    Commications & Development Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $44,681
    From this org
    $44,681
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Clarissa Felling

    Program and Volunteer Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $43,400
    From this org
    $43,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Nantz McMillian

    Lead Aquarist & Interpreter

    Total calculated
    $39,413
    From this org
    $39,413
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Anthony Terzoli

    Education Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $34,303
    From this org
    $34,303
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Chris Chapman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Andrea Parrish

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sandy Zeiner

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lorie Thompson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Noah Kalb

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Diana Larsen-Mills

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Timmie Maturan-Lee

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Christie Spice

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Andrea Parrish

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $474,642
    Expenses
    $650,354
    Contributions
    $474,555
    Grants paid
    $13,104
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $610,791
    Expenses
    $534,293
    Contributions
    $609,633
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $356,316
    Expenses
    $385,700
    Contributions
    $348,076
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $328,845
    Expenses
    $278,877
    Contributions
    $278,529
    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
    $212,774
    Expenses
    $175,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,151

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 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Nicki Johnson
Mailing address
PO Box 2182Olympia WA 98507
Website
sseacenter.org
Doing business as
SSEA

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.