How much did Coastal Quest grant in FY2024?

Coastal Quest reported 20 grants totaling $460,456 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

Coastal Quest

Coastal Quest (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization working collaboratively with partners to build resilient coastal communities in California.

$460k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$70k

Largest

01What you fund

0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$675kArts & Culture$215kAnimals$193kRecreation & Sports$133kScience & Tech$21kEducation$19kCrime & Legal$15kOther$219k

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

marine protection

2021

marine protected

2022

marine protected

2023

mpa outreachoutreach education

2024

mpa outreachoutreach educationbenefitwatersmall distributionwatershedmembers

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

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $55k
$10k–50k9 grants · $208k
$50k–250k3 grants · $183k

$16,796

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

California Academy of Science$70,000
Ctr for Environ Econ Develop$60,000
Sustainable Solano$52,500
Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation$40,000
Color the Water$30,000
Green Cities Fund$30,000
Cal Marine Sanctuary Fdn$28,000
Nature Collective$22,478
Orange County Coastkeeper$21,028
Monterey Coastkeeper$16,796
Greater Farallones Assoc$10,000
Crystal Cove Conservancy$10,000
Laguna Canyon Foundation$7,500
International Bird Rescue$7,000
Surfrider Foundation$7,000

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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 20 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +97% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%

+97%

Still filing today

95%

89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CM
Cal Marine Sanctuary Fdn
5× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +322%
CA
California Academy of Science
3× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +4%
WF
Wishtoyo Foundation
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +25%

Funded once

NM
Nntl Marine Sanctuary Fdngraduated
one grant, 2021 · $39k · revenue +245%
TB
The Bay Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +20%
CE
Coastal Ecosystems Institute
one grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue -97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

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

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

Save Cuesta Inlet Inc

Environment

Coastal Ranches Conservancy

The mission of the coastal ranches conservancy is to identify, fund and implement projects that will enhance and protect the natural environment of the gaviota coast.

Environment

Pacific Coast Environmental Conservancy

Organization was able to support efforts for the protection and sustainability of the unique pacific coast environments

Environment

California Ocean Alliance

The mission of the California Ocean Alliance is to conduct world-class marine research which leads directly to sound policy decisions that safeguard the oceans and allow marine mammals to thrive into the next century.

Science & Tech

Land to Sea Conservancy

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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Bay Nature Institute

Through environmental journalism, photography, art, and educational webinars, Bay Nature magazine and website connect the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to the natural world that surrounds them.

Environment

San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision-making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Bay and the most unlike its peers is California Academy of Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

12%

12,917/104,723

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

32 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)

32/32

Grantees still filing

29/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$674,752Other$218,700Arts & Culture$215,000Animals$192,998Recreation & Sports$132,643Science & Tech$20,710Education$18,620Crime & Legal$15,000

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.

Resources Legacy FundCA32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · The Marisla Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Coastal Quest 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2rely 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.

05Through 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: Color the Water.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +51% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853800480 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 Color the Water, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Coastal Quest?

Find your warmest path to Coastal Quest 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.

Coastal Quest

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Coastal Quest?

More from the funding graph

Coastal Quest

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Coastal Quest?

More from the funding graph