· Public charity
Consortium for Ocean Leadership
Not applicable due to wind down of col organization.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $185,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $273,595 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,939 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| WASHINGTON SEA GRANT | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY CAL STATE UNIV | $9,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE | $9,000 |
| STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| MICHIGAN SEA GRANT | $9,000 |
| OCEAN FIRST INSTITUTE | $9,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $9,000 |
| SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND | $9,000 |
| MERROW FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO5× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +60%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE4× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +37%- PMPEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +40%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2018 · $24k
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2020 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Education and Research
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Merrow Foundation. 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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds MERROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ocean First Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Collegiate Athletic Association · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Consortium for Ocean Leadership 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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