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DEBRIS FREE

EIN 46-4581532 MIAMI, FL

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Revenue 2024
$295,739
Expenses 2024
$251,440

Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
3775 LOQUAT AVE

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DEBRIS FREE OCEANS IS A MIAMI-BASED ORGANIZATION THAT EMPOWERS LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO GO ZERO WASTE SO ALL HAVE ACCESS TO HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS AND CLEAN OCEANS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

IN 2024, DEBRIS FREE OCEANS LAUNCHED ZERO WASTE MIAMI - A COALITION WORKING TO BUILD MIAMI'S CIRCULAR ECONOMY THROUGH EXPANDING REDUCTION, REUSE, REFILL, REPAIR, RECYCLING, AND COMPOSTING IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. 100+ BUSINESSES, NONPROFITS, GOVERNMENT ENTITIES, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TAKE PART IN ZERO WASTE MIAMI'S MONTHLY MEETINGS, WHATSAPP COMMUNITY, MAILING LIST, AND MORE.

  • EDUCATION - SINCE INCEPTION, WE HAVE PROVIDED EDUCATIONAL LESSONS ABOUT PLASTIC POLLUTION AND HOW TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION TO 15,000 IN-PERSON INDIVIDUALS; MENTORED 16 COLLEGE-LEVEL FUTURE OCEAN CONSERVATION LEADERS IN PLASTIC POLLUTION KNOWLEDGE, PRESENTATION SKILLS, CLEANUP AND EVENT ORGANIZATION, AND ADVOCACY; AND AND MENTORED APPROXIMATELY 100 HIGH-SCHOOL LEVEL FUTURE OCEAN CONSERVATION LEADERS TO SPEAK WITH 54 BUSINESSES ABOUT REDUCING THEIR PLASTIC WASTE AND SAVING MONEY ULTIMATELY ELIMINATING 28,000 SINGLE-USE PLASTIC ITEMS FROM THE WASTE STREAM. IN TOTAL, DEBRIS FREE OCEANS HAS HELPED ENTITIES IN MIAMI ELIMINATE OVER 2 MILLION, AND COUNTING, PLASTIC ITEMS FROM THE WASTE STREAM.

    Expenses $99,884

  • ZERO WASTE MIAMI - IN 2024, DEBRIS FREE OCEANS LAUNCHED ZERO WASTE MIAMI - A COALITION WORKING TO BUILD MIAMI'S CIRCULAR ECONOMY THROUGH EXPANDING REDUCTION, REUSE, REFILL, REPAIR, RECYCLING, AND COMPOSTING IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. 100+ BUSINESSES, NONPROFITS, GOVERNMENT ENTITIES, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TAKE PART IN ZERO WASTE MIAMI'S MONTHLY MEETINGS, WHATSAPP COMMUNITY, MAILING LIST, AND MORE.

    Expenses $50,083

  • CLEANUPS - AS OF 2024, WE HAVE REMOVED APPROXIMATELY 65,000 POUNDS OF TRASH FROM MIAMI'S STREETS, BEACHES, AND REEFS WITH OVER 12,000 VOLUNTEERS.

    Expenses $29,204

  • LIFESTYLE & AWARENESS EVENTS - FROM OUR START, WE HAVE PARTICIPATED IN, AUDITED, AND/OR HOSTED 500+ ZERO WASTE EVENTS REACHING NEARLY 16,000 PEOPLE, INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY ACROSS THE EVENT SECTOR AND SHIFTING CULTURE TOWARDS ZERO-WASTE IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY.

    Expenses $32,482

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.

  • Caitlin Waks

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $47,025
    From this org
    $32,920
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,105
    Hours/week
    25

  • Jeremy Waks

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Sebastian Padilla Ochoa

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ana Meira

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Grissom

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $295,739
    Expenses
    $251,440
    Contributions
    $181,643
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $193,598
    Expenses
    $229,913
    Contributions
    $142,014
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $199,028
    Expenses
    $134,640
    Contributions
    $135,534
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $63,212
    Expenses
    $90,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,984

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $142,990
    Expenses
    $55,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $157,219

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $61,545
    Expenses
    $34,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,890

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Saira Fida
Mailing address
5 Island Ave 8EMIAMI BEACH FL 33139
Website
www.debrisfreeoceans.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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

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

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

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.