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Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated
Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,279 to it, the largest being BIRDSCARIBBEAN ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $307k
- Net assets
- $943k
What Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated does
Mission
Protecting the Caribbean environment through research and community-based actions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Black-capped Petrel Program - The Black-capped Petrel is one of the rarest seabirds in the Caribbean. This iconic seabird nests in some of the last known ancient forests on Hispaniola as well as potentially on Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. Since 2012, EPIC has tracked populations of this species throughout the Caribbean, located new nesting areas, worked with communities to reduce human impacts on forests through sustainable farming and youth education, removed introduced predators out of nest areas, and reduced threats to flying petrels through the removal of dangerous strike hazards. In addition, these efforts have substantially increased the capacity of local organizations to protect this species. Another focus of EPICs conservation of the petrel has been to reduce poverty in human communities near petrels and their nesting areas which has improved local food security and reduced pressures. EPIC research shows that Black- capped Petrel nesting populations have stabilized in locations where we work, a clear indication of the successful impact of our conservation program.
$27,060 spent17% of program spendingThe Grenadines Seabird Program - is protecting the highly significant seabird breeding populations in the transboundary archipelago of Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, covering a total of 74 sites, including 3 seabird nesting sites of global significance and 18 significant to the Caribbean. Seabirds are experiencing worldwide populations declines estimated at 70% so addressing the impacts of poaching, plastic pollution, habitat degradation, and introduced predators is essential. This program focuses on research, monitoring, education, and conservation planning and action, such as habitat improvement. A total of 70 citizen scientists are currently trained as members of the Grenadines Seabird Guardians, a group that monitors populations at remote, uninhabited islands. In addition, EPIC is conducting island habitat restoration on Battowia and the Pillories along with community outreach and youth education.
$93,678 spent58% of program spendingUS Virgin Islands Education and Waste Reduction Programs EPIC and partners completed the Water Smart Schools VI grant-funded program this year, which provided hands-on science education to ~5,500 students and 150 teachers across eight public schools in St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John. Through hands-on learning, school audits, community outreach, and other measures, the initiative fostered a new generation of water stewards, significantly expanded the impact of the Eco-Schools program in the territory, reduced waste, and improved health conditions. Key components were the distribution of 3,000 reusable water bottles, the installation of four water bottle filling stations, and the upkeep of several others, which together diverted an estimated 35,477 single-use plastic bottles from the landfillnearly a ton of waste. A second project that was started this year focused on pollution prevention through working with the VI Clean Coasts program and is aimed at food service providers. By offering technical assistance and seed funding, the project is helping businesses to switch from single-use disposable items to reusable items, in order to reduce pollution and the health exposures…
$41,173 spent25% of program spendingThrough its locally led affiliate, the EPIC Sint Maarten Foundation, EPIC addressed pollution and waste reduction via the Precious Plastics program, which recycles plastic waste into usable products while educating the public on waste reduction and reuse practices. Sustainability efforts were further advanced through the promotion of the international Blue Flag and Green Key eco-labels, awarded to businesses that meet rigorous environmental standards. Regular community litter cleanups engaged volunteers in active environmental stewardship. Additionally, EPIC implemented a conservation program focused on protecting native bat species, as well as a seabird conservation initiative, further strengthening biodiversity protection efforts on the island during the reporting period.
$501 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,412.
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 2024 to 2025, from $286k to $945k (+230%).
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 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated’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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Adam Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $20k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated’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
Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 57% · 2021 35% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$950k
- Environmental Protection Agency$200k
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 Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated?
- Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,279 to it, the largest being BIRDSCARIBBEAN ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $307,279 in grants to Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated?
- BIRDSCARIBBEAN is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Environmental Protection In The Caribbean Incorporated 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 6 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