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MISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM

EIN 81-4974774 GULFPORT, MS

Revenue 2025
$7,657,771
Expenses 2025
$8,957,698

Program services were 82.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D50
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1100

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 · 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.

  • WALT PANNEL

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • KURT ALLEN

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $225,000
    From this org
    $225,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $225,000

  • DUNCAN MCKENZIE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • RICH WESTFALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • MATTHEW GRICE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • BEN PACE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • MICHAEL SUNDERMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • DR SCOTT WILLARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • KELLY DARNELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • TRACI HAVELIN

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $133,000
    From this org
    $133,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JEFF GIBULA

    SR VP OF PROPERTY OPERATIO

    Total calculated
    $110,000
    From this org
    $110,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DR ALEXA DELAUNE

    VP OF VETERINARY SERVICES

    Total calculated
    $104,000
    From this org
    $104,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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 — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $7,657,771
    Expenses
    $8,957,698
    Contributions
    $494,608
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,716,118
    Expenses
    $10,177,938
    Contributions
    $1,375,967
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,972,922
    Expenses
    $9,228,578
    Contributions
    $615,956
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,617,763
    Expenses
    $9,371,910
    Contributions
    $288,768
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,793,421
    Expenses
    $9,374,375
    Contributions
    $379,908
    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.

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

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.