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OCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT INC

EIN 14-1861309 RICHMOND, CA

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Revenue 2024
$605,435
Expenses 2024
$314,435

Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C32
Classification
1000
Street
301 COMMODORE DR

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

Blue Frontier Campaign works to promote unity, provide tools and raise awareness of the solution oriented marine conservation community.

  • Blue Frontier Campaign works to promote unity, provide tools to raise awareness of the solution-oriented marine conservation community.

    Expenses $229,166 · Revenue $9,390

  • Blue Frontier Campaign sponsors groups working to make a difference such as Point Molate Alliance in their efforts to raise awareness and create a positive difference.

    Expenses $19,973

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • David Helvarg

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $86,000
    From this org
    $86,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Wendy Benchley

    Board Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Scott Fielder

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Vicki Nichols Goldstein

    Board Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • David Schwartz

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Charlotte Vick

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Randy Hayes

    Board Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Cindy Zipf

    Board Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Nancy Knowlton

    Board Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75

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
    $605,435
    Expenses
    $314,435
    Contributions
    $596,023
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $157,279
    Expenses
    $232,592
    Contributions
    $156,892
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $278,019
    Expenses
    $226,609
    Contributions
    $276,227
    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
    $169,839
    Expenses
    $177,166
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,123
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,997
    Expenses
    $158,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,928
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,376
    Expenses
    $139,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,187
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,446
    Expenses
    $470,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,766
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,976
    Expenses
    $236,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,679
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $266,533
    Expenses
    $280,604
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,811
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $267,092
    Expenses
    $257,277
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,836
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $202,502
    Expenses
    $178,896
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,722

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.

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.