BELIEVE IN BELIZE

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2025 · Form 990EZ · revenue $62K · expenses $79K · assets $66K

EIN
82-3524490
Address
15204 OMEGA DR STE 210, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850-4838
Website
www.believeinbelize.org
NTEE code
Q30
Exempt type
501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)
Ruling date
March 2019 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)
IRS status
Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗
Tax-deductible donations
Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗
Foundation status
Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))
Principal officer
Nabil Bedewi (its 2022 Form 990-N)
Form 990-N e-postcards
1 filed, 2022 (organizations with gross receipts normally $50,000 or less file this instead of a full Form 990) IRS data ↗
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Mission

Our mission is to unite people resources and ideas to advance education health community development and environmental stewardship throughout Belize. Through grassroots partnerships and community-driven initiatives Believe in Belize focuses on practical measurable outcomes. With our local partners we prioritize projects that deliver real benefits on the ground whether supporting students improving access to care strengthening local economies or protecting Belizes extraordinary natural environment.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

None of the 8 people listed on these returns reported compensation from the organization. They are listed below.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

8 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

NameLatest titleYearsHrs/wk (latest)CompensationOrganizations
Yolan Wolf Director2023-2025 1 $0 reported 1
William Hunter Director2023-2025 3 $0 reported 1
Shelley Falk Director2023-2025 3 $0 reported 1
Russell Cozart Executive Director2025 15 $0 reported 1
Ron Green Director2025 3 $0 reported 1
Nabil Bedewi (former) Director2023-2024 15 $0 reported 1
Adriana Lynn Upham (former) Director2023-2024 3 $0 reported 1
Alice Gordon (former) Director2023-2024 3 $0 reported 1

People by year

2025 · 5 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
Russell Cozart Executive Director15 $0-$0 $01
Yolan Wolf Director1 $0-$0 $01
William Hunter Director3 $0-$0 $01
Shelley Falk Director3 $0-$0 $01
Ron Green Director3 $0-$0 $01
2024 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
Nabil Bedewi Director15 $0-$0 $01
Yolan Wolf Director1 $0-$0 $01
William Hunter Director3 $0-$0 $01
Shelley Falk Director3 $0-$0 $01
Adriana Lynn Upham Director3 $0-$0 $01
Alice Gordon Director3 $0-$0 $01
2023 · 6 people listed · none paid
NameTitleHrs/wkFrom orgFrom relatedOtherTotalOrgs
Nabil Bedewi Director20 $0-$0 $01
Yolan Wolf Director1 $0-$0 $01
William Hunter Director3 $0-$0 $01
Shelley Falk Director3 $0-$0 $01
Adriana Lynn Upham Director3 $0-$0 $01
Alice Gordon Director3 $0-$0 $01

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

RevenueExpensesAssetsNet assetsContributionsProgram revenueOfficer payEmployeesVolunteers
2025 · Form 990EZ period ending 2025-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$62,438$79,447 $65,685$65,685 $59,241- ---
2024 · Form 990EZ period ending 2024-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$90,592$62,962 $82,694$82,694 $87,423- ---
2023 · Form 990EZ period ending 2023-12-31 · view filing · original 990 ↗
$82,439$66,067 $55,064$55,064 $81,231- ---

Funders of this organization

3 grantors reported grants to this organization, $16,130 in all, tax years 2019 to 2023. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

GrantorTypeMatchYears givenGrantsTotalLatest yearLatest year's amountGrants
ARTURO & EUNJAE PERALTA-RAMOS CHARITABLE TR Private foundation Fuzzy filed as “BELIEVE IN BELIZE” 2023 1$10,000 2023$10,000
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FJC DAF sponsor Exact 2019 1$5,455 2019$5,455
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AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION Private foundation Fuzzy filed as “BELIEVE IN BELIZE” 2020-2023 4$675 2023$79
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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

2025 · Form 990EZ · $79,447 spent · pay $0 · grants $65,918 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Grants and similar amounts paid $65,918 83.0%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $13,529 17.0%
Total$79,447100%

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2024 · Form 990EZ · $62,962 spent · pay $0 · grants $61,726 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Grants and similar amounts paid $61,726 98.0%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $1,236 2.0%
Total$62,962100%

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2023 · Form 990EZ · $66,067 spent · pay $0 · grants $64,599 · events $0
LineAs describedTotalShare
Grants and similar amounts paid $64,599 97.8%
Other expenses (detail on Schedule O) $1,468 2.2%
Total$66,067100%

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Trademarks

1 US trademark, 1 live.

MarkSerialFiledStatusSource
BELIEVE IN BELIZE971236002021-11-13RegisteredTRCFECO2, file of 2024-03-27

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