Florida · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $544k
What American Caribbean Maritime Foundation does
Mission
American Caribbean Maritime Foundation ("the foundation") is a not-for- profit organization whose primary purpose is alleviating poverty and transforming lives in the caribbean through maritime education and community development. The foundation exists to support aspiring caribbean maritime professionals and workers who are looking to be trained at any of acmf academic partners: the caribbean maritime university, university of trinidad and tobago, and ljm maritime academy (bahamas), atlantic alliance off-shore maritime training institute, and matpal marine institute. The foundation also supports job placement through its jobs board and by collaborating with crewing agencies. The foundation's activities are focused on raising funds for scholarships, equipment, facilities and infrastructure, including classrooms and physical amenities. The foundation supports the development of the maritime community in which the caribbean maritime university is located.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The acmf, just after a few short years, has transformed the lives of hundreds of aspiring caribbean seafarers and maritime professionals, and thousands who have benefited from the classroom we helped to fund, and the equipment donated by the foundation. In 2024, the acmf significantly expanded its scholarship and grant award program. In 2018, it was thirteen (13) and grew to two hundred eighty-nine (289) in 2024. We launched a digital scholarship portal, which, when added to our digital jobs board (exclusively for caribbean maritime graduates) launched in the previous yearmakes our delivery of services more seamless and efficient. Our work with major shipping companies serving the caribbean resulted in unique partnerships including expanding our cruise partnerships to royal caribbean, norwegian cruise line, msc, and carnival. We hosted our first formal scholarship awards program in jamaica in collaboration with the us embassy in kingston, presided over by the us ambassador, and attended by maritime authority leaders, students, academic partners from jamaica and guyana. Bearing in mind that we are approaching our tenth anniversary in 2027, we held two strategic planning sessions to…
$448,254 spentof which $331,274 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $448,254.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $384k to $871k (+127%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 4% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
92% of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,000 in grants to AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CARIBBEAN MARITIME FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing