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Bluefields Environmental Protection Association

The corporation shall protect the natural environment of jamaica and contribute to the health, welfare and well-being of the country's residents.

$74k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $74,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,243 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$410k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAMAICA INC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAMAICA INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Grants abroad, by region — $342k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $312k to organizations and $30k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Bluefields And St Elizabeth, Jamaica$182k · 53% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES: WE PAID FOR MEDICAL BILLS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR NEEDY, ELDERLY AND CHALLENGED INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

Bluefields And Montego Bay, Jamaica$77k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP PROJECT: PURCHASE OF PLASTIC GLOVES, GARBAGE BAGS, LITTER BARRELS FOR PUBLIC CLEANUP PROGRAM.

Mearnsville And Sav-la-mar, Jamaica$40k · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSISTANCE FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS: PAID FOR PLUMBING MAINTENANCE WORK AND UPKEEP OF TOILETS AT THE ALL-AGE PUBLIC SCHOOL, AS WELL AS THE MAINTENANCE OF A LOCAL SPORTS FIELD FOR THE CHILDREN.

Bluefields, Jamaica$30k · 9% · 4 people

Stated purpose: POOR RELIEF TO THE ELDERLY. MONTHLY STIPENDS ARE PROVIDED TO HELP ELDERLY RESIDENTS MEET THEIR MEDICAL AND OTHER EXPENSES; AND COSTS OF PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE NEEDY.

Belmont, Jamaica$14k · 4% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSISTANCE TO HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS: FOOD FOR THE CAFETERIA AND SPECIAL MEALS.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your field
03the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bluefields Environmental Protection Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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    How do I get to Bluefields Environmental Protection Association?

    Find your warmest path to Bluefields Environmental Protection Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $317k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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