- Revenue 2025
- $5,503,040
- Expenses 2025
- $5,450,470
Program services were 87.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T50
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- BELMOPAN CAYO DISTRICT
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
TO CREATE A TRANSPARENT AND INCLUSIVE FINANCING MECHANISM THAT IS SUCCESSFULLY MOBILIZING INVESTMENTS FOR THE CONSERVATION AND RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF BELIZE'S MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES.
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THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES FUNDING THROUGH ITS GRANT AWARDS PROGRAM (GAP) AND GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC ALLOCATION (GSA) TO SUPPORT THE CONSERVATION AND RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF BELIZE'S MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES. GAP PRIMARILY SUPPORTS CONSERVATION INITIATIVES OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, WHILE GSA SUPPORTS THE GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE IN ACHIEVING CONSERVATION COMMITMENTS.
Expenses $4,791,348 · Grants $4,735,953
As filed on the 2025 return.
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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Beverly WadeBEVERLY WADE
DIRECTOR (FROM 5/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carlos PolCARLOS POL
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Felicia CruzFELICIA CRUZ
DIRECTOR (UP TO 5/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Hannah St Luce MartinezHANNAH ST LUCE MARTINEZ
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jake SnaddonJAKE SNADDON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joel VerdeJOEL VERDE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lindsay GarbuttLINDSAY GARBUTT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Milagro MatusMILAGRO MATUS
DIRECTOR (FROM 5/25)
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Robert UsherROBERT USHER
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Stewart KrohnSTEWART KROHN
CHAIRPERSON
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leandra Cho-RickettsLEANDRA CHO-RICKETTS
SECRETARY/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $62,294
- From this org
- $60,097
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $2,197
- Hours/week
- 40
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $5,503,040
- Expenses
- $5,450,470
- Contributions
- $5,436,758
- Grants paid
- $4,735,953
-
2023
- Revenue
- $3,868,372
- Expenses
- $3,866,844
- Contributions
- $3,860,318
- Grants paid
- $3,354,944
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2022
- Revenue
- $488,165
- Expenses
- $435,830
- Contributions
- $486,430
- Grants paid
- $279,782
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 2021
- Tax period
- 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022
- Principal officer
-
Leandra Cho-Ricketts PhDLEANDRA CHO-RICKETTS PHD
- Mailing address
- 15 GARDEN CITY PLAZABELMOPAN CAYO DISTRICTBH
- Website
- WWW.BELIZEFUND.BZ
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
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BLUE INVESTMENTS FOR NATURE INC
$3,804,200
2023 CONSERVATION
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared as related by
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BLUE INVESTMENTS FOR NATURE INC
On its 2023 return
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 FORGN.
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.