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OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION INC

EIN 85-3160014 ALEXANDRIA, VA

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Revenue 2024
$125,000
Expenses 2024
$158,402

Program services were 77.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
C01
Classification
3000
Street
1800 DIAGONAL RD STE 600

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

16 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 600). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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

Primary exempt purpose

OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO THE CONSERVATION AND RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT OF OCEAN RESOURCES, INCLUDING INFORMING AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND THOSE ENGAGED IN THE UTILIZATION OF OCEAN RESOURCES ON BEST PRACTICES WITH REGARD TO RESPONSIBLE RESOURCE UTILIZATION, CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS.

  • AS PART OF OUR EFFORT TO PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE OF THE OCEANS, WE APPLIED FOR AND RECEIVED OBSERVER STATUS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY (ISA), THE UNITED NATIONS BODY THAT IS RESPONSIBLE UNDER THE UN CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA (UNCLOS) FOR OVERSEEING MINING ON THE SEABED UNDER THE HIGH SEAS. AS AN ACCREDITED OBSERVER NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION PARTICIPATED IN ISA ASSEMBLY MEETING 29 IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA (29 JULY - 2 AUGUST 2024). WE MADE AN INTERVENTION AFFIRMING PLANS TO RETAIN PERMANENT REPRESENTATION IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA, WHERE THE ISA IS LOCATED. DURING THE MEETING, OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION DISCUSSED WITH MANY DELEGATIONS THE ISA'S WORK TOWARDS AGREEING A MINING CODE AND THE AREAS WHERE TEXT AND DRAFTING DISAGREEMENTS EXIST.

    Expenses $51,930

  • AS PART OF OUR EFFORT TO PROMOTE GOOD GOVERNANCE OF THE OCEANS, WE PARTICIPATED IN THE 69TH PLENARY MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION (IWC 69) IN LIMA, PERU (23-27 SEPTEMBER 2024). OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION PRESSED THE IWC TO IMPROVE ITS GOVERNANCE IN SEVERAL WAYS. IN A FLOOR INTERVENTION, WE SAID THAT ABORIGINAL WHALING SHOULD BE A RIGHT RATHER THAN A PRIVILEGE THAT IS GRANTED PERIODICALLY AT THE IWC'S DISCRETION. WE FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT THE IWC'S QUOTA PROCESS AND VOTE CREATED UNNECESSARY UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE OUTCOME AND THAT THIS CAUSED CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY AMONG TRADITIONAL WHALING COMMUNITIES. SEPARATELY, WE EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE VOICES OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WERE DELETED FROM A COMMISSIONED REPORT ON SUBSISTENCE WHALING IN ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES. WE REQUESTED THAT THE ORIGINAL TEXT BE REINSERTED. OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW THE ISSUE OF APPLYING A QUORUM AT THE IWC SHOULD BE CONSTITUTED DURING MEETINGS AND VOTING.

    Expenses $40,521

  • AS PART OF OUR EFFORT TO SUPPORT GREATER INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS IN CONSERVING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, WE PARTICIPATED IN THE OUR OCEAN 2024 MEETING IN ATHENS (15-17 APRIL 2024). OUR OCEAN MEETINGS WERE INITIATED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE IN 2014 AND FOCUS ON A NUMBER OF AREAS OF ACTION, SUCH AS PROMOTING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, FOSTERING A SUSTAINABLE BLUE ECONOMY, TACKLING THE CLIMATE CRISIS, SUPPORTING MARITIME SECURITY, ADVANCING SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES, AND COMBATING MARINE POLLUTION SUCH AS PLASTICS. OPES OCEANI FOUNDATION MADE A COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP SYNERGIES BETWEEN MARINE CONSERVATION AND ARTISANAL FISHERIES IN PANAMA OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. OVERALL, MORE THAN 450 COMMITMENTS WERE MADE AT THE CONFERENCE TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE THE OCEANS, VALUED AT $11 BILLION.

    Expenses $30,714

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.

  • Gavin Carter

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Glenn Inwood

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Bruce Kitchen

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jacqueline Clarke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bernard Monot

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $125,000
    Expenses
    $158,402
    Contributions
    $125,000
    Grants paid
    $17,567
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $105,000
    Expenses
    $92,922
    Contributions
    $105,000
    Grants paid
    $6,237

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 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Gavin Carter
Mailing address
1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600Alexandria VA 22314

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 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

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.