BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC
EIN 27-3627697 · Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management (C32)
What they do
IN 2024, BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER (D/B/A MIAMI WATERKEEPER) BUILT ON OUR REPUTATION BY NAVIGATING CHALLENGES, SEIZING OPPORTUNITIES, and CONTINUING OUR UNWAVERING COMMITMENT to SAFEGUARDING OUR PRECIOUS WATERWAYS and FINDING LOCAL RESILIENCY SOLUTIONS to GLOBAL CHALLENGES. WE UPDATED OUR MISSION and VISION to BETTER REFLECT THE WORK WE DO and THOSE WE SERVE. THE MISSION of MIAMI WATERKEEPER is NOW to PROTECT SOUTH FLORIDAS WATERS BY ADVOCATING for RESILIENT SOLUTIONS GROUNDED IN SCIENCE, ROOTED IN NATURE, and DRIVEN BY COMMUNITY. WE HAVE A VISION for A RESILIENT SOUTH FLORIDA THAT is A GLOBAL LEADER IN CLEAN WATER SOLUTIONS, WHERE THRIVING COMMUNITIES and NATURE COEXIST. SINCE 2010, MIAMI WATERKEEPER HAS DEFENDED THE RIGHT to USE and ENJOY CLEAN WATER. WE ARE RECOGNIZED IN THE COMMUNITY AS A TRUSTED SOURCE of INFORMATION and A LEADING VOICE and ADVOCATE for BISCAYNE BAY and ITS SURROUNDING WATERSHED. OUR WORK is EFFECTIVE BECAUSE WE EMPLOY A MULTI- FACETED APPROACH THAT INCLUDES SCIEN
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RACHEL SILVERSTEINCHIEF EXECUT
CHRISTOPHER BOYKINCHIEF DEVELO
REBECCA SHARPE-ZOUINECHIEF TECHNO
GRETCHEN CLARKCHIEF FINANC
AMADA PRIETOCHIEF PROGRA
GREGORY FRANKELDIRECTOR
TRACY SLAVENSDIRECTOR
PHILIP KUSHLANSECRETARY
MARVIN WILMOTHTREASURER
KATIA BULGARELLIDIRECTOR
H WEITZ JORDANCHAIRMAN
GREGORY CLARKDIRECTOR
EMILIE FRITZ VELOSODIRECTOR
ELLEN LEVINSONDIRECTOR
AMY CLEMENTDIRECTOR
ALEJANDRO DE ONISDIRECTOR
AARON STAUBERDIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2010
- Location
- 2121 PONCE DE LEON BLVD STE 230, CORAL GABLES, FL 33134-5221
- County
- Miami-Dade
- In care of
- % RACHEL SILVERSTEIN
- Primary officer
- RACHEL SILVERSTEIN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFI
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Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990
- Tax preparer
- GUTIERREZ MADARIAGA CPA PA
- NTEE classification
- Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management (C32)
- IRS tax category
- Water Resources, Wetlands Conservation & Management