How much does Coastal Quest give?

Coastal Quest reported 20 itemized grants totaling $445,455, out of $460,456 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Coastal Quest fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (85%), Science & Tech (8%), Recreation & Sports (6%).

Who are Coastal Quest's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: California Marine Sanctuary Foundation ($155k), California Academy of Sciences ($115k), Nature Collective ($103k).

Does Coastal Quest fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Coastal Quest?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, Patagoniaorg, The Marisla Foundation.

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California · Public charity

Coastal Quest

Coastal Quest (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization working collaboratively with partners to build resilient coastal communities in California. Our Mission is to accelerate solutions, building resilient coastal communities for people, nature, and the climate.Coastal Quest is committed to catalyzing positive change by placing…

$460k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Itemized grants FY2024: 16
Organizations funded FY2023: 63%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $445k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $16,796
Largest grant, FY2024: $70,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 16; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Coastal Quest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	20	$445k	25%
FY2023	16	$506k	63%
FY2022	4	$46k	0%
FY2021	13	$355k	85%
FY2018	8	$135k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$1.3MScience & Tech$121kRecreation & Sports$90kAnimals$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Marine Sanctuary Foundation	$154,998	5	3%
California Academy of Sciences	$115,000	3	0%
Nature Collective	$103,227	3	1%
Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation	$100,000	2	3%
Sustainable Solano Inc	$90,000	2	4%
Ctr for Environ Econ Develop	$90,000	2	n/a
Green Cities Fund Inc	$90,000	2	28%
Color the Water	$90,000	2	57%
Bay Foundation of Morro Bay	$65,000	3	1%
Orange County Coastkeeper	$45,070	2	1%

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All grantees of Coastal Quest by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Marine Sanctuary Foundation	$154,998	5	3%
California Academy of Sciences	$115,000	3	0%
Nature Collective	$103,227	3	1%
Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation	$100,000	2	3%
Sustainable Solano Inc	$90,000	2	4%
Ctr for Environ Econ Develop	$90,000	2	n/a
Green Cities Fund Inc	$90,000	2	28%
Color the Water	$90,000	2	57%
Bay Foundation of Morro Bay	$65,000	3	1%
Orange County Coastkeeper	$45,070	2	1%
Crystal Cove Conservancy	$42,643	3	0%
Monterey Coastkeeper	$41,990	2	17%
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation	$39,200	1	0%
Wildcoast	$37,400	2	1%
Save Our Shores	$37,400	2	5%
Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation	$34,000	1	1%
Los Cerritos Wetlands Fund	$32,915	2	n/a
Oceans Unmanned Inc	$30,000	2	7%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$25,950	2	0%
Greater Farallones Association	$25,000	2	1%
Coastal Ecosystems Institute of Northern California	$24,000	1	14%
Laguna Canyon Foundation	$22,500	2	1%
Friends of the Dunes	$21,000	1	7%
Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles	$20,710	2	0%
Ocean Discovery Institute	$18,620	1	1%
Heal the Bay	$16,500	1	0%
Environmental Defense Center	$15,000	1	1%
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy	$13,500	1	0%
Acorn Partners in Education	$12,800	1	n/a
The Surfrider Foundation	$7,000	1	0%
International Bird Rescue	$7,000	1	0%
Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc	$7,000	1	1%
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance	$7,000	1	1%
Norton Bay Inter-Tribal Watershed Council	$6,000	1	7%

Coastal Quest supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Resources Legacy FundCA31.5× 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 Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Environment Now · Dorrance Family Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · California Community Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Coastal Quest

How much does Coastal Quest give?: Coastal Quest reported 20 itemized grants totaling $445,455, out of $460,456 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Coastal Quest fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (85%), Science & Tech (8%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
Who are Coastal Quest's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: California Marine Sanctuary Foundation ($155k), California Academy of Sciences ($115k), Nature Collective ($103k).
Does Coastal Quest fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coastal Quest?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, Patagoniaorg, The Marisla Foundation.
Where is Coastal Quest based?: Coastal Quest is based in CA.