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CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM INC

EIN 59-2086737 CLEARWATER, FL

Revenue 2024
$22,862,676
Expenses 2024
$25,250,419

Program services were 75.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D500
Classification
2000
Street
249 WINDWARD PASSAGE

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).

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.

  • John Draheim

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Busch

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas R Orr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frank Chivas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rowland Milam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • R Nathan Hightower

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Colin Devine

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Stamey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathleen Perrott

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bridget Starr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marian Goodman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Novak

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Helen Barrott

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matt Marquardt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Gerson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Powell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Powell

    CZO

    Total calculated
    $229,501
    From this org
    $201,726
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,775
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,726
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $27,775
    Filer's total
    $229,501

  • Kelly Jordan

    VP, Development

    Total calculated
    $153,384
    From this org
    $153,384
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $153,384
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $153,384

  • Joe Handy

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $585,707
    From this org
    $536,024
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $49,683
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $466,024
    Bonus
    $70,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $49,683
    Filer's total
    $585,707

  • Anthony Rivera

    COO

    Total calculated
    $237,189
    From this org
    $222,416
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,773
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,416
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,773
    Filer's total
    $237,189

  • Dorothy Gurdak

    VP, Sales & Marketing

    Total calculated
    $129,917
    From this org
    $129,917
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Stephanie Jones

    VP, People & Culture

    Total calculated
    $136,890
    From this org
    $130,390
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,500
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shelly Marquardt

    VP, Animal & Environmental Health

    Total calculated
    $147,648
    From this org
    $128,223
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,425
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kelly Martin

    VP, Zoological Care

    Total calculated
    $129,287
    From this org
    $121,487
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,800
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kelly McAdams

    VP, Conservation Education

    Total calculated
    $137,270
    From this org
    $126,845
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,425
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $22,862,676
    Expenses
    $25,250,419
    Contributions
    $8,800,195
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,187,819
    Expenses
    $6,600,405
    Contributions
    $2,795,375
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $21,322,978
    Expenses
    $26,306,149
    Contributions
    $3,878,540
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.