Nonprofit · EIN 91-0783118
THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH
Tax-exempt · SEATTLE, WA 98195
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $165,902 | $154,471 | $11,431 | $652,396 | $310 | $652,086 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $168,781 | $125,843 | $42,938 | $621,131 | $0 | $621,131 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $163,588 | $99,497 | $64,091 | $551,290 | $0 | $551,290 |
| December 31, 2021 | 990 | $102,655 | $84,115 | $18,540 | $427,603 | $0 | $427,603 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $45,646
- Membership dues
- $39,040
- Program service revenue
- $70,175
- Investment income
- $40,176
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $19,232
- Net income from sales of inventory
- $9,905
- Other revenue
- $9,905
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $31,075
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $0
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $1,530
- Occupancy
- $14,345
- Travel
- $1,937
- Depreciation
- $544
- Program services (functional)
- $137,178
- Management and general (functional)
- $17,213
- Fundraising (functional)
- $80
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $621,131
- Total assets, end of year
- $652,396
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $310
- Net assets, end of year
- $652,086
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $1,900
- Publicly traded securities
- $572,394
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $652,086
- Gross receipts
- $238,662
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 250
- Year formed
- 1964
- State of legal domicile
- WA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Richards | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $800 |
| Wren Hudgins | Trustee Until 32025 Trustee or director | 5 | $625 |
| Colin Meyer | President Until 32025 Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Carolina Kohler | Secretary Until 32025 Trustee or director, Officer | 3 | $0 |
| Joe Zapotosky | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 8 | $0 |
| Kelsey Hudson | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Sandra Ruffner | Trustee Until 32025 Trustee or director | 2.5 | $0 |
| Pei Pei Sung | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Peg Rutchik | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Steve Trudell | Scientific Advisor Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Cynthia Brewster | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Tara Henry | Trustee Until 32025 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Megan Brewster | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Amy Foster | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Andy Iwata | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
5 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie Costa | Secretary From 42025 Trustee or director, Officer | 3 | $0 |
| Clay Dawson | Trustee From 42025 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Marian Maxwell | Trustee From 42025 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Derek Hevel | Trustee From 42025 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Shannon Adams | Trustee From 42025 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 20 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wren Hudgins | Trustee Trustee or director | 5 | $925 |
| Colin Meyer | President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Scott Maxwell | Vice President Until 0324 Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Brenda Fong | Treasurer Until 0324 Trustee or director, Officer | 9 | $0 |
| Marcus Sarracino | Trustee Until 0324 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Carolina Kohler | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 3 | $0 |
| Joe Zapotosky | Vice President From 424 Trustee or director, Officer | 8 | $0 |
| Marian Maxwell | Trustee Until 0324 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Anne Polyakov | Trustee Until 0324 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Kelsey Hudson | Trustee Trustee or director | 2.5 | $0 |
| Marion Richards | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Sandra Ruffner | Trustee Trustee or director | 2.5 | $0 |
| Pei Pei Sung | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Peg Rutchik | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Steve Trudell | Scientific Advisor Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Cynthia Brewster | Treasurer From 424 Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Tara Henry | Trustee From 424 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Megan Brewster | Trustee From 424 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Amy Foster | Trustee From 424 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Andy Iwata | Trustee From 424 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 21 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Polyakov | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Kelsey Hudson | Trustee Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Marian Maxwell | Trustee Trustee or director | 5 | $0 |
| Wren Hudgins | Trustee Trustee or director | 6 | $0 |
| Joe Zapotosky | Trustee Trustee or director | 6 | $0 |
| Peg Rutchik | Trustee From 062023 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Steve Trudell | Scientific Advisor Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Pei Pei Sung | Trustee From 042023 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Marion Richards | Trustee From 042023 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Sandra Ruffner | Trustee From 042023 Trustee or director | 3 | $0 |
| Luise Asif | Trustee Until 052023 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Bruce Robertson | Trustee Until 032023 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Marcus Sarracino | Trustee Trustee or director | 3 | $0 |
| Molly Watts | Trustee Until 032023 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Thad Steffen | Trustee Until 032023 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Su Fenton | Trustee Until 032023 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Colin Meyer | President From 042023 Trustee or director, Officer | 6 | $0 |
| Randy Richardson | President Until 032023 Trustee or director, Officer | 6 | $0 |
| Scott Maxwell | Vice President Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Carolina Kohler | Secretary From 042023 Trustee or director, Officer | 3 | $0 |
| Brenda Fong | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 9 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2021: 20 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molly Watts | Trustee Trustee or director | 3 | $0 |
| Anne Tarver | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Milton Tam | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Valerie Costa | Trustee Since 0421 Trustee or director | 3 | $0 |
| Joe Zapotosky | Trustee Since 0421 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Ester Kelli Marks | Trustee Since 0421 Trustee or director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Wren Hudgins | Trustee Since 0421 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Erin ODell | Trustee Until 0321 Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Debbie Johnson | Trustee Until 0321 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Derek Hevel | Trustee Until 0321 Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Hans Drabicki | Trustee Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Marcus Sarracino | Trustee Trustee or director | 3 | $0 |
| Scott Maxwell | Trustee Until 0521 Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Marian Maxwell | Trustee Trustee or director | 4 | $0 |
| Scott Maxwell | Vice President Since 0621 Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Marion Richards | Vice President Until 0521 Trustee or director, Officer | 5 | $0 |
| Randy Richardson | President Trustee or director, Officer | 6 | $0 |
| Brenda Fong | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 10 | $0 |
| Luis Asif | Secretary Until 0321 Trustee or director, Officer | 3 | $0 |
| Su Fenton | Secretary Since 0421 Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- CUH-UW BOX 354115, SEATTLE, WA 98195-4115
- In care of
- % CHARLES PERKINS
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Kelsey Hudson, CUH-UW BOX 354115, SEATTLE, WA 981954115
- Signed the 990
- CHARLES PERKINS, Treasurer
- Website
- HTTPS://WWW.PSMS.ORG
- Return prepared by
- The Sheriff CPA Services LLC
Mission
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Program accomplishments
- Ben Woo Memorial Foray: A members only weekend educational session with speakers, classes and field trips exploring the forests, collecting and discussing the numerous species collected. Classes offered cover basic identification, dying with mushrooms, cooking, the role of fungi in various habitat, etc.Expenses $24,037 · revenue $26,677
- Annual Wild Mushroom Show: A two-day program when we share with the general public our knowledge of and enthusiasm for the fungal kingdom. The exhibit includes: displays of mushrooms, mushroom identification, cooking demonstrations, microscopy, cultivation kits, dying with mushrooms, lectures, childrens area, and book and merchandise sales.Expenses $21,178 · revenue $3,587
- Education: PSMS offers a number of classes: 1) Introduction to Mushrooms and Mushroom Hunting 101: The class covers a wide range of topics on ecology, terminology, basics of identifying, edible and toxic mushrooms, poisoning syndromes, hunting, cooking and cultivation. 2) Mushrooms 102: Poison & Edibles, 3) Dyeing Fabrics with Mushrooms, 4) Cultivation, 5) Mycophagy, and 6) Navigation Skills.Expenses $17,248 · revenue $11,820
- All other programs. Monthly meetings: Meetings are held in-person and virtually, with speakers of mycology. Meetings are open to members and the general public. Fungal DNA Sequencing Citizen Science Project: Identification of interesting collections from the Pacific Northwest. Field trips: offered in the Spring and Fall, for members to explore the forest, collect and identify mushrooms, and discuss findings. Ben Woo Scholarship program: provides financial support for research and education regarding fungi in the Pacific Northwest. K-12 Grants: supports the study of fungi in K12 classrooms in Washington State. PSMS helps teachers efforts to promote and further their students understanding of fungi and their importance in our lives.Expenses $74,715 · grants $31,075 · revenue $30,994
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 91-0783118
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1993
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $652,396
- Income (IRS master file)
- $238,662
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $165,902 | $154,471 | $652,396 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $168,781 | $125,843 | $621,131 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $163,588 | $99,497 | $551,290 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | $102,655 | $84,115 | $427,603 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 91-0783118).
Questions about THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH
- What is the EIN of THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH is 91-0783118.
- Is THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1993.
- Are donations to THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Kelsey Hudson.
- Who are the officers and directors of THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 20 people; 2 received compensation from the organization, the highest $800 (Marion Richards, Trustee).
- How much revenue does THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY CTR FOR URBAN HORT UNIV OF WASH have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $165,902, expenses of $154,471 and total assets of $652,396 at year end.
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