Sealark Exploration Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Search & recover of US MIAs from WWII.
- Income
- $151,391
- Spending
- $92,242
- Reserves
- 6.2 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 99%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Strong: 90 out of 100. Higher than 75% of charities in its peer group (human services, under $250k).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 6.2 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 39% of income.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $92,242 spent. During calendar year 2025, the Sealark Exploration team was immersed in mission follow-up reports to The Department of War's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) for mission 25-4SB and commenced work on a DoW contract to research 30 cases of missing aircrew in the Shortland Islands area of the South Pacific. Mission 25-4SB was executed in November 2024, and involved the search for a missing F4U Corsair Fighter off the coast of Gizo Island in the Solomon Islands. The team was successful in locating the wreckage and recovering partial human remains. The Shortland Island project involves intensive research into squadron records and eye witness accounts on numerous over-water aircraft losses in and around the Shortland Islands in the Solomon Islands Sector. These reports will be prioritized into possible field missions at DPAA and it is expected that Sealark will conduct several if not most of these missions. Of note was the recent positive identification of aircrew remains from Sealark's Mission 22-1VU to Venuatu in 2023. Sealark located a Navy PBY Catalina off the coast of Vanuatu and recovered two sets of partial remains. Radioman Robert R. Cyr, Jr was positively identified by DPAA's lab at Hickam AFB, Hawaii in February 2026. Cyr was buried with full military honors on 2 May 2026. The other individual is pending identification. Currently, Sealark has 3 sets of partial remains awaiting identification in the DPAA lab. A further potential 3 individuals remain in a wreck located and investigated in April 2024 in the Solomon Islands.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2021.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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