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LEATHERBACK PROJECT INC

EIN 84-2922562 NORFOLK, MA

Revenue 2024
$569,871
Expenses 2024
$413,730

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
1280
Street
87 UNION ST

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DEDICATED TO PROTECTING THE LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE AND OTHER THREATENED AND ENDANGERED MARINE SPECIES THROUGH SCIENCE, ADVOCACY, STORYTELLING, AND COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ACTION.

  • THE LEATHERBACK PROJECT CONDUCTS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION INITIATIVES AIMED AT PROTECTING LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES AND OTHER THREATENED MARINE SPECIES. OUR WORK ADDRESSES KEY DRIVERS OF POPULATION DECLINE, INCLUDING FISHERIES BYCATCH AND HABITAT DEGRADATION. WE COLLABORATE WITH SCIENTISTS, POLICYMAKERS, AND COASTAL COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE EVIDENCE-BASED SOLUTIONS SUCH AS MARINE PROTECTED AREA IMPLEMENTATION AND THE RECOGNITION OF NATURES LEGAL RIGHTS. BY USING SEA TURTLES AS SENTINEL SPECIES, WE INVESTIGATE BROADER ECOLOGICAL CHANGES AND ADVOCATE FOR SUSTAINABLE OCEAN STEWARDSHIP GROUNDED IN SCIENCE. IMPACT INCLUDES 86 SQUARE KILOMETERS OF PROTECTED AREA, 3 CONSERVATION PROJECTS LAUNCHED, 25 SEA TURTLES TAGGED IN THE PEARL ISLANDS ARCHIPELAGO, 40 FISHERS TRAINED IN SAFE BYCATCH RELEASE TECHNIQUES, 300 LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE NESTS MONITORED, 6,494 LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE HATCHLINGS PROTECTED, AND 118 NESTING LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES ID TAGGED.

    Expenses $342,392 · Grants $20,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Callie Veelenturf

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $45,500
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,500
    Hours/week
    40

  • Henry Alpaugh

    CLERK

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Jeff Goodall

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $569,871
    Expenses
    $413,730
    Contributions
    $569,871
    Grants paid
    $20,000

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Callie Veelenturf
Mailing address
87 UNION STNORFOLK MA 02056

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.