How much did BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

marineeducation

2019

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2020

made behalfbehalf teamteam marinemarine competitioncompetition winner

2021

—

2022

fellowship

2023

fellowship

2024

fellowship

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$190k

Total assets

Largest grants

ABDULKAREEM SHAMSUDDEEN MUHAMMAD$3,440
PURITY BUSENA$2,500
JAVIE VINZE BARCINAL$2,206
KABIR OLASEBIKAN$2,075
THIVYA JEYAPALAN$2,000
CYNTHIA ZHANG$2,000
JOY SANDERE$1,800
PALOMA LENZ$1,553
GWENAN WALKER$1,200

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 72% of BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Ocean Research and Educational

Science & Tech

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

Society of Environmental Journalists

The mission of the society of environmental journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach, and viability of journalism across all media to advance public understanding of environmental issues.

Arts & Culture

Coastal Conservation Association

Protection of the marine, animal and plant life and resources of the coastal areas of the united states, both onshore and offshore, for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. such objectives will be accomplished by: (a)…

Environment

Global Foundation for Oceanographic

Philanthropy

Schmidt Ocean Institute

Science & Tech

Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation

The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the ocean. Millions of people worldwide draw inspiration from the Aquarium and look to us to advocate for the ocean and its wildlife.

Animals

Ecological Society of America

Environment

Ocean Wise Conservation Association

OWCA is a self supporting, non-profit organization whose mission is to empower communities & individuals to take action to protect & restore our world's oceans.

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Environment Now

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Coral Conservancy

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs and the most unlike its peers is National Art Education Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$130,042Environment$6,900Science & Tech$500Arts & Culture$230

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

PatagoniaorgCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PANGEASEED FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472605555 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PANGEASEED FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs Inc?

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BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS PROGRAMS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs Inc?

More from the funding graph