Totals
- Total revenue
- $88,444
- Total expenses
- $398,446
- Contributions and grants received
- $56,673
- Grants paid
- not reported
- Program service revenue
- not reported
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $7,665
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $23,700
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $406
- Total assets, end of year
- $236,984
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $144,458
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $92,526
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $195,837
Program services were 49.2% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
FORCE BLUE WAS CREATED TO ADDRESS TWO SEEMINGLY UNRELATED PROBLEMS - THE RAPDILY DECLINING HEALTH OF OUR PLANET'S MARINE RESOURCES AND THE DIFFICULTY MANY RETURNING COMBAT VETERANS HAVE IN ADJUSTING TO CIVILIAN LIFE. BY UNITING THE COMMUNITY OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS VETERANS WITH THE WORLD OF MARINE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION IN ONE, MISSION-FOCUSED PROGRAM, FORCE BLUE HAS CREATED A MODEL OF CARING, COOPERATION AND POSITIVE CHANGE WITH THE POWER TO RESTORE LIVES AND RESTORE THE PLANET.
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FORCE BLUE IS THE ONLY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD THAT RETRAINS, RETOOLS, AND REDEPLOYS FORMER SPECIAL OPERATIONS VETERANS AND MILITARY-TRAINED COMBAT DIVERS ON MISSIONS OF MARINE CONSERVATION.
Expenses $195,837
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part IV
-
JAMES RITTERHOFF
President & CEO
- Total calculated
- $60,000
- Compensation
- $60,000
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 40
-
ANGELO FIORE
Director
- Total calculated
- $60,000
- Compensation
- $60,000
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 40
-
KEITH SAHM
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $60,000
- Compensation
- $60,000
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 40
-
KEN ROCHE
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 10
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, 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.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 12 November 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.1
- Source object
- 202443179349204469
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