Force Blue Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812921674
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Mount Pleasant, SC, USA
Phone
9148417230
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,658
Expenses
$17,015
Assets
$338,469
Liabilities
$140,612

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JAMES RITTERHOFF (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • JAMES RITTERHOFF (President & CEO)
  • ANGELO FIORE (Director)
  • KEITH SAHM (COO)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Force blue was created to address two seemingly unrelated problems - the rapdily declining health of our planet's marine resources and the difficulty many returning combat veterans have in adjusting to civilian life. By uniting the community of special operations veterans with the world of marine science and conservation in one, mission-focused program, force blue has created a model of caring, cooperation and positive change with the power to restore lives and restore the planet.

What it reported doing in 2024

Force blue is the only nonprofit organization in the world that retrains, retools, and redeploys former special operations veterans and military-trained combat divers on missions of marine conservation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 95
  • Sustainability: 84
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 84.8%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.89; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.