- Revenue 2023
- $97,071
- Expenses 2023
- $94,441
Program services were 92.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C60
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 1374
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
The primary mission is to protect and value the ocean and its wildlife. We include the protection of all wildlife, land and sea. Activities include a focus on the high seas, marine protected areas, prevention of deep sea mining, and species protection, including coral reefs around the world.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The primary mission is to protect and value the ocean and its wildlife. We include the protection of all wildlife, land and sea. Activities include a focus on the high seas, increasing the number and size marine protected areas, prevention of deep sea mining, and species protection, including coral reefs around the world.
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Regulations of high seas, with a particular focus on deep sea mining. Developed other avenues with other ocean organizations and several social media experts in an effort to educate the public of the long-term damages of deep sea mining.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $37,000 · Grants $37,000
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $50,000 · Grants $50,000
As filed on the 2023 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
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.
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Sarah Woodberry Trauner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jean Oelwang
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nikole Zoumberakis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gigi Brisson
CEO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 25
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Lonnie Autry Jr
CFO
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $97,071
- Expenses
- $94,441
- Contributions
- $96,992
- Grants paid
- $87,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $489
- Expenses
- $82,348
- Contributions
- $389
- Grants paid
- $66,000
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,558
- Expenses
- $38,841
- Assets (EOY)
- $961,659
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $163,394
- Expenses
- $230,246
- Assets (EOY)
- $956,558
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
- Gigi Brisson
- Mailing address
- Po Box 1374Hollister CA 95024
- Website
- www.oceanelders.org
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 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
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$46,000
2023 TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION: TO ADVOCATE FOR THE CREATION, CONTINUED PROTECTION AND/OR EXPANSION OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, THE CREATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 14: LIFE BELOW WATER, A NEW TREATY FOR THE HIGH SEAS, AND THE PROTECTION OF MARINE WILDLIFE.
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$40,000
2023 THE DONATION IS PRIMARILY FOR THE CORAL REEF RESEARCH DIRECTED BY DR. WILFREDO LICUANAN OF DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY IN MANILA, PHILIPPINES. AS DISCUSSED DURING THE WEEK IN EL NIDO, THE FUNDS WILL ENABLE DR. LICUANAN TO EXTEND THE EMPLOYMENT OF POST-DOC STUDENTS WHO ASSIST IN THE RESEARCH TO PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CORAL REEF SO VITAL TO THE CORAL TRIANGLE.
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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.