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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION

EIN 81-5132355 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$12,513,955
Expenses 2024
$17,732,162

Program services were 97.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
228 E 45TH ST RM 9E

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).

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.

  • BOYAN DAMIR SLAT

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $185,750
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $185,750
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $185,750 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $185,750 related

  • JOY GAO

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $111,297
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $111,297
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • CARL MR VAN DER ZANDT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT C PARKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETER SCHWARTZ

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $12,513,955
    Expenses
    $17,732,162
    Contributions
    $11,705,133
    Grants paid
    $17,147,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,747,898
    Expenses
    $30,619,405
    Contributions
    $19,290,786
    Grants paid
    $30,195,939
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $36,740,334
    Expenses
    $23,744,670
    Contributions
    $36,740,334
    Grants paid
    $23,061,162

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
    $8,535,781
    Expenses
    $7,896,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,161,783

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,270,344
    Expenses
    $85,306
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,608,235

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,836,437
    Expenses
    $3,072,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,298,809

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,625,278
    Expenses
    $2,095,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $661,285

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,100
    Expenses
    $22,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,126

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 2024 return

  • STICHTING THE OCEAN CLEANUP

    PROTECT AND PRESERVE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT · NL

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • THE OCEAN CLEANUP PROJECTS BV

    PROTECT AND PRESERVE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT · NL

  • THE OCEAN CLEANUP TECHNOLOGIES BV

    PROTECT AND PRESERVE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT · NL

  • THE OCEAN CLEANUP INTERCEPTION BV

    PROTECT AND PRESERVE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT · NL

  • THE OCEAN CLEANUP OPERATIONS BV

    PROTECT AND PRESERVE OCEAN ENVIRONMENT · NL

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.