- Revenue 2024
- $115,612
- Expenses 2024
- $122,217
Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B90
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 2286
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
Primary exempt purpose
Marine Science Education
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Matagorda Manana program provided 10 full days of Marine Science education to students in Matagorda County including Marine Science Cruises into Tres Palacios Bay and Shoreside Citizen Science lessons. 545 students and 56 teachers served. For 123 participants, it was their first time on a boat.
Expenses $35,600
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Traveling Bay Touch Tank program for Victoria Texas ISD provided visits to all public schools in the district, including 14 elementary schools, 4 middles schools and 2 high schools, allowing students to interact with live marine specimens collected from their watershed (San Antonio Bay). All specimens were returned to the bay. 30 full day visits served 2965 students and 199 teachers.
Expenses $30,000
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Estuary October program provided 21 Marine Science Cruises aboard the Research Vessel Archimedes into San Antonio Bay out of Seadrift, Texas as well as related shoreside lessons for students in the watershed for San Antonio Bay. 524 students and 54 teachers served. For 148 participants, it was their first time on a boat.
Expenses $12,600
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Other program services: In addition to the programs listed in lines 28, 29 and 30, Texas Floating Classroom, Inc. conducted 52 Marine Science Cruises aboard the Research Vessel Archimedes into Corpus Christi Bay, Aransas Bay, San Antonio Bay, Lavaca Bay and Tres Palacios Bay, serving a total of 733 students and 249 teachers. For 255 participants, it was their first time on a boat. Our Traveling Bay program also visited an additional 30 schools, parks, libraries and museums with our Touch Tanks, allowing 3,916 students and 456 adults to interact with live fish, crabs, shrimp and other specimens collected from (and returned to) local bays in their watersheds. The Traveling Bay educational team traveled a total of 17,588 miles throughout the year so that students who were not able to participate in Marine Science Cruises would be able to view, touch, and learn about the marine organisms that inhabit the bays into which the rainwater that falls on their communities flows, thereby connecting these future stewards of our environment to the organisms that are affected by their actions.
Expenses $42,679
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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Whitney Curry
Executive Director/Captain/Educator
- Total calculated
- $12,000
- Compensation
- $12,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
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Bryan Curry
Director/Captain/Educator
- Total calculated
- $12,000
- Compensation
- $12,000
- Benefit plans
- $0
- Expense account
- $0
- Hours/week
- 25
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Dr Russ Miget
Director/Curriculum developer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Brenda Bennett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $115,612
- Expenses
- $122,217
- Contributions
- $4,918
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $157,633
- Expenses
- $151,564
- Contributions
- $8,868
- 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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022
- Tax period
- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
- Principal officer
- Whitney Curry
- Mailing address
- PO Box 2286Aransas Pass TX 78335
- Website
- Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.
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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2024 MARINE RESEARCH
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.