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FORCE BLUE INC

EIN 81-2921674 MT PLEASANT, SC

Revenue 2024
$111,658
Expenses 2024
$17,015

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1254

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

Primary exempt purpose

FORCE BLUE WAS CREATED TO ADDRESS TWO SEEMINGLY UNRELATED PROBLEMS - THE RAPDILY DECLINING HEALTH OF OUR PLANET'S MARINE RESOURCES AND THE DIFFICULTY MANY RETURNING COMBAT VETERANS HAVE IN ADJUSTING TO CIVILIAN LIFE. BY UNITING THE COMMUNITY OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS VETERANS WITH THE WORLD OF MARINE SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION IN ONE, MISSION-FOCUSED PROGRAM, FORCE BLUE HAS CREATED A MODEL OF CARING, COOPERATION AND POSITIVE CHANGE WITH THE POWER TO RESTORE LIVES AND RESTORE THE PLANET.

  • FORCE BLUE IS THE ONLY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD THAT RETRAINS, RETOOLS, AND REDEPLOYS FORMER SPECIAL OPERATIONS VETERANS AND MILITARY-TRAINED COMBAT DIVERS ON MISSIONS OF MARINE CONSERVATION.

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.

  • JAMES RITTERHOFF

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANGELO FIORE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • KEITH SAHM

    COO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • KEN ROCHE

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $111,658
    Expenses
    $17,015
    Contributions
    $5,075
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $88,444
    Expenses
    $398,446
    Contributions
    $56,673
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $653,738
    Expenses
    $784,175
    Contributions
    $442,737
    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

    Revenue
    $797,933
    Expenses
    $659,055
    Assets (EOY)
    $619,681

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $692,589
    Expenses
    $403,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $426,065

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $639,941
    Expenses
    $777,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,263

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,408
    Expenses
    $363,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,048

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $208,019
    Expenses
    $300,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,609

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $108,603
    Expenses
    $17,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,538

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 on its 2022 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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.