Florida · Nonprofit
BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC
BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,801 to it, the largest being LUIS VON AHN FOUNDATION ($247,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $639k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Blue World Foundation Inc does
Mission
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually will substitute fishing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, fundacin mundo azul advanced its mission to promote the sustainability of marine-coastal ecosystems and artisanal fisheries in guatemala and the mesoamerican region through integrated programs in applied research, public awareness and policy engagement, and community development and environmental education. Measurable outputs and reach scientific research and conservation continued long-term monitoring of sharks and rays on both the pacific (since 2017) and caribbean (since 2015) coasts, generating critical datasets for fisheries management and conservation decision-making. In 2025 alone, monitoring in the pacific recorded 10,003 individuals across 26 species, providing key evidence on catch composition and population trends. Shark-tagging initiatives marked 163 individuals (156 hammerhead sharks and 7 sharpnose sharks), with recaptures documenting movement patterns and habitat connectivity. The organization has executed 53 projects, produced 30 scientific publications, and published 9 books over its years of operation. Education, outreach, and community engagement environmental education and awareness activities have reached 65,945 people on issues such as marine…
$326,596 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,596.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $218k to $386k (+77%).
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.
100% of BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $122k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC’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
BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 87% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record.
- Department of the Interior$177k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC: 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 BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC?
- BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $638,801 to it, the largest being LUIS VON AHN FOUNDATION ($247,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $638,801 in grants to BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC?
- LUIS VON AHN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $247,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE WORLD FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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