Florida · Nonprofit
DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS
DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,808 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($120,466). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $224k
What Debris Free Global Inc D/B/A Debris Free Oceans does
Mission
Debris free oceans is a miami-based organization that empowers local communities to go zero-waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - since inception, we have provided educational lessons about plastic pollution and how to be part of the solution to 15,000 in-person individuals; mentored 16 college-level future ocean conservation leaders in plastic pollution knowledge, presentation skills, cleanup and event organization, and advocacy; and mentored approximately 100 high-school level future ocean conservation leaders to speak with 54 businesses about reducing their plastic waste and saving money ultimately eliminating 28,000 single-use plastic items from the waste stream. In total, debris free oceans has helped entities in miami eliminate over 2 million, and counting, plastic items from the waste stream.
$8,400 spent6% of program spendingZero waste miami - in 2024, debris free oceans launched zero waste miami - a coalition working to build miami's circular economy through expanding reduction, reuse, refill, repair, recycling, and composting in miami-dade county. 160+ businesses, nonprofits, government entities, and community members take part in zero waste miami's monthly meetings, whatsapp community, mailing list, and more.
$63,917 spent48% of program spendingCleanups - as of 6/30/2025, we have removed approximately 75,000 pounds of trash from miami's streets, beaches, and reefs with over 13,000 volunteers.
$16,746 spent13% of program spendingLifestyle & awareness events - from our start, we have participated in, audited, and/or hosted 500+ zero waste events reaching nearly 16,000 people, inspiring sustainability across the event sector and shifting culture towards zero-waste in miami-dade county.
$44,498 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,561.
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 2019 to 2020, from $69k to $157k (+128%).
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: 2024 32% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $184k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS’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
DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 60% · 2022 74% · 2023 65% — 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
20% of DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS draws 59% 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. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS?
- DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,808 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($120,466). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $405,808 in grants to DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS?
- OCEAN CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $120,466 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEBRIS FREE GLOBAL INC D/B/A DEBRIS FREE OCEANS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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