Sharks4Kids
Legal name: Sharks4kids Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462997020
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dania Beach, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5178961941
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,432
- Expenses
- $118,789
- Assets
- $135,132
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JILLIAN MORRIS (PRESIDENT)
- DEREK BURKHOLDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JILLIAN MORRIS (PRESIDENT)
- DEREK BURKHOLDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DUNCAN BRAKE (MEDIA MANAGER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The goal of Sharks4Kids is to create a new generation of shark advocates through access to a dynamic range of educational materials and experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project Lemon Aid Provides hands-on marine education throughshark catch-and-tag research, classroom visits, and studentfield experiences designed to promote conservation and scientific learning
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.5%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 52.9%; rating input score 53
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 37.5% of revenue deployed · 52.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.