2023-11-17T11:32:47-00:00 2022-12-31 660544617 BURGER & COMER PC POBOX 504053 SAIPAN MP 96950 990EZ 2022-01-01 660896909 Friends of the Mariana Trench FRIE 6704833668 PO Box 10000 PMB 162 SAIPAN MP 96950 Laura J Peterka Executive Director 6704833668 2023-11-17 true Laura Peterka XXX-XX-XXXX true David J Burger P01433272 6702358722 2023-11-17 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.friendsmarianatrench.org X X 118940 X 118940 118940 15188 146926 6400 77656 246170 -127230 259830 143737 276337 X 107354 85157 297602 193681 404956 278838 145126 2501 259830 276337 X See Schedule O Please see schedule O 228484 228484 Sheila Babauta Chairman 002.00 0 Franco Santos Treasurer 002.00 0 Larisa Ford Secretary 002.00 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false false MP MANGO POBox 500631 SAIPAN MP 96950 SAIPAN MP 96950 6702336200 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 10100 23780 219121 319218 118940 691159 10100 23780 219121 319218 118940 691159 691159 691159 691159 X 0.00000 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10, Grants Paid Activity Stipend, Grantee Ocean Elders PMB 162 PPP Box 10000 Saipan MP 96950, Cash Grant 15,188, Relationship Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Travel 3,473 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Office expense 17,106 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Other expense 242 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Fuel 20 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Training expense 192 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Adverttising 3,700 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Business expense 6 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Outside services 51,587 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses NFWF project supplies 102 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16, Other Expenses Project Hope supplies 1,228 Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20, Net Assets Prior Period Adjustment 143,737 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24, Other Assets Accounts Receivable Beginning of year 291,834, End of year 193,671 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24, Other Assets Other Current Assets Beginning of year 10, End of year 10 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24, Other Assets Fixed Assets Beginning of year 5,758, End of year 0 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26, Liabilities Accounts Payable Beginning of year 2,500, End of year 713 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26, Liabilities Other Current Liabilities Beginning of year 142,626, End of year 1,788 Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line Exemption purpose Organizations Primary Exempt Purpose To be the guardians of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and our ocean resources by emplowering communities with ocean conservation strategies and research grounded in traditional teachings. Form 990-EZ, Part III, Line 28 The organizations focus is on education, stewardship, and research. During 2022, we focused on delivering Project HOPE Healthy Oceans People Empowerment. Project HOPE is an educational collaboration beteween Public School Systems sixth-graders, Northern Mariaans College Science Club students, and community elders. Project HOPE strives to improve CNMI sixth-graders act aspire test scores by offering tehm a free ocean science program by incorporating local elders ocean expertse. The total number of individuals who benefited fromthe program is approximately 1,094 individuals.