REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
EIN 65-0270064 KEY LARGO, FL
- Revenue 2025
- $4,587,911
- Expenses 2025
- $2,816,760
Program services were 87.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- N113
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 370246
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 · 2025
Mission
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (REEF) WAS ESTABLISHED AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN 1990. REEF CONSERVES MARINE ENVIRONMENTS WORLDWIDE. OUR MISSION IS TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY AND OCEAN LIFE BY ACTIVELY ENGAGING AND INSPIRING THE PUBLIC THROUGH CITIZEN SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. REEF CONNECTS OCEAN ENTHUSIASTS AND THE DIVE COMMUNITY WITH SCIENTISTS AND RESOURCE MANAGERS THROUGH DATA COLLECTION ACTIVITIES AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES. THE REEF CAMPUS IN KEY LARGO, FL SERVES AS A VISITORS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC.
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IN 2023, REEF CONTINUED TO PROTECT MARINE ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH EDUCATION, SERVICE AND RESEARCH. REEF PROVIDES EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES TO BUILD AND INSPIRE A COMMUNITY OF OCEAN STEWARDS. THE REEF CAMPUS IN KEY LARGO FL SERVES AS A VISITORS CENTER TO EDUCATE AND ENGAGE THE PUBLIC WITH MARINE CONSERVATION. WE ALSO CONDUCT ONLINE PROGRAMMING SUCH AS WEBINARS AND OTHER INTERACTIVE CONTENT. WE CONDUCT IN-PERSON PROGRAMMING LED BY REEF STAFF AS WELL AS THE WIDE NETWORK OF PARTNERS INCLUDING DIVE SHOPS AND CLUBS, NATURE CENTERS, AND PUBLIC AQUARIA. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH CONSERVATION IS ALSO FULFILLED THROUGH THE VOLUNTEER FISH SURVEY PROJECT, REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND POWERFUL OCEAN CITIZEN SCIENCE PROGRAMS. IT GIVES DIVERS AND SNORKELERS AN ENGAGING AND MEANINGFUL WAY TO SUPPORT MARINE CONSERVATION. PARTICIPANTS SCUBA DIVE AND SNORKEL TO COLLECT AND REPORT INFORMATION ON MARINE FISH POPULATIONS AS WELL AS SEA TURTLES AND SELECT INVERTEBRATE AND ALGAE SPECIES. THIS DATA IS USED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND PROTECT OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS WORLDWIDE. FISHERIES PROTECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD DEPEND ON HIGH-QUALITY DATA. WITH REEF DATA, SUBMITTED BY CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, RESEARCHERS ARE MAKING EXCITING DISCOVERIES ABOUT MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, AND POLICYMAKERS HAVE MORE INFORMATION TO REFINE CONSERVATION EFFORTS. VOLUNTEERS COLLECT AND SUBMIT DATA ON MARINE LIFE SIGHTINGS. IT HAS GENERATED THE LARGEST MARINE LIFE SIGHTINGS DATABASE, AN UNPARALLELED SOURCE OF INFORMATION THAT PROVIDES INVALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE HEALTH, STATUS, AND THREATS OF OCEAN HABITATS AND ANIMALS.
Expenses $2,458,151
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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BYRON BISHOP
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MARTA HILTON BONATZ
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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JANET CAMP
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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ANNA DELOACH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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NED DELOACH
TRUSTEE/CO-F
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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TAMSEN DEWITT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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JAMES P DALLE PAZZE ESQ
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MARY MCCOMBIE PHD
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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SCOTT HEPPELL PHD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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CHUN WRIGHT
TRUSTEE
- 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $4,587,911
- Expenses
- $2,816,760
- Contributions
- $3,648,494
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $3,314,420
- Expenses
- $2,078,476
- Contributions
- $2,247,232
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,844,934
- Expenses
- $1,762,259
- Contributions
- $1,097,024
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,900,215
- Expenses
- $1,207,986
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,620,574
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $902,238
- Expenses
- $855,720
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,640,592
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,664,001
- Expenses
- $1,700,186
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,391,590
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,461,323
- Expenses
- $1,260,482
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,370,430
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,122,128
- Expenses
- $1,131,637
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,106,203
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2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- -$8,741
- Expenses
- $7,876
- Assets (EOY)
- $317,957
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,630,889
- Expenses
- $1,409,132
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,188,783
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $769,209
- Expenses
- $763,700
- Assets (EOY)
- $959,754
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $844,251
- Expenses
- $712,648
- Assets (EOY)
- $967,255
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $844,251
- Expenses
- $712,648
- Assets (EOY)
- $967,255
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
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
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$264,395
2023 HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$251,500
2024 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$231,809
2024 HUMAN SERVICES
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$99,220
2022 HUMAN SERVICES
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$15,000
2022 OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH EFFORTS
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.