- Revenue 2025
- $49,926
- Expenses 2025
- $45,179
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 3191 GRAND AVENUEUT 330667
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
Primary exempt purpose
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to support and enhance the environmental condition of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County Florida through a Citizens Support Organization CSO for the State of Floridas Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserves
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Biscayne Bay Restoration Stewardship Projects Friends of Biscayne Bay FOBB advanced several on-the-ground projects supporting Biscayne Bay restoration and stewardship Derelict Trap Rodeo FOBB organized and supported a community-based derelict fishing trap removal event in Biscayne Bay working with agency partners to remove abandoned traps that pose risks to marine life and navigation The project engaged volunteers local officials and the public in hands-on marine debris removal Sonde Water Quality Monitoring Project FOBB partnered with Florida International University to support the deployment of water quality monitoring sondes in Biscayne Bay and its tributaries FOBBs role included landowner outreach site identification and public engagement to support long-term publicly accessible water quality data collection
Expenses $15,000
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Outreach Education FOBB also conducted outreach and education activities to increase public awareness of Biscayne Bay water quality conservation issues and opportunities for civic engagement FOBB produced and distributed regular newsletters and digital communications reaching thousands of subscribers maintained active social media and website platforms to share educational content project updates and advocacy opportunities participated in public events cleanups and tabling opportunities including The Way of Water Baynanza and International Coastal Cleanup Day engaged the public in advocacy related to Biscayne Bay restoration water quality and land-use protections and supported the installation of interpretive signage at the Joe Farina Mangrove Preserve to educate visitors about the ecological significance of the site and honor its conservation legacy
Expenses $30,181
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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Bruce Matheson
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Charles Munroe
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Mary Zigler
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Connie Crowther
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gary Milano
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve Leidner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leigh Buckner
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Paul Schwiep
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $49,926
- Expenses
- $45,179
- Contributions
- $49,927
- 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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024
- Tax period
- 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024
- Principal officer
- BRUCE C MATHESON
- Mailing address
- 3191 GRAND AVENUEMIAMI FL 33323
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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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2024 UNRESTRICTED
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2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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2023 SUPPORTING GRANT
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
- Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 May 2010.
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.