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Consortium for Ocean Leadership

Not applicable due to wind down of col organization.

$274k
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
19
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$779kScience & Tech$72kEnvironment$63kHealth$63kArts & Culture$27kYouth Development$18kCommunity Improvement$18k
02FY2022 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $185,656, the rows itemized in this filing. The $273,595 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $87,939 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIT SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$9,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$9,000
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY$9,000
OCEAN FIRST INSTITUTE$9,000
WASHINGTON SEA GRANT$9,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$9,000
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI$9,000
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY$9,000
MICHIGAN SEA GRANT$9,000
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY CAL STATE UNIV$9,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND$9,000
MERROW FOUNDATION$9,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $9k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $9k → 10%MIT SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM: $9k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $9k → 11%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE MONTEREY BAY: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $9k → 9%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 7%GALVESTON BAY AREA CHAPTER: $9k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $18k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $9k → 13%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $9k → 13%MICHIGAN SEA GRANT: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE: $9k → 17%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 18%CT SEA GRANT FUND UNIVERSITY OF CT FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON: $9k → 12%MERROW FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $24k → 13%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 20%SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%OCEAN FIRST INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WASHINGTON SEA GRANT: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $9k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $9k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $16k → 22%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $9k → 6%VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE: $9k → 9%OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $9k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM: $9k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $9k → 11%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE MONTEREY BAY: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $9k → 9%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 7%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $9k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION MARINE SCIENCE: $9k → 12%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $9k → 13%REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE: $9k → 17%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION: $9k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
NC
HI
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 27 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$846k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+35%

Still filing today

30%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22
EducationPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    5× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +60%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +37%
  • PM
    PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2018 · $24k
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $18k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

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…

Education
3
University of the Pacific

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
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
University of Denver

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…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

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…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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10
University Foundation
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11
University of Miami
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12
University of Southern California

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $45,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · OtherYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITYRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI: $43,173 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPIUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $36,000 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON: $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $36,000 · OtherSAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $35,826 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $35,712 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $27,000 · OtherVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE: $27,000 · OtherResearch Corporation of the University of Hawaii: $27,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $27,000 · Other+7 more: $130,399 · Other+7 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $45,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $35,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO F…OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY …UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $18,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CORPORATION A…FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $18,000 · EducationFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA…University of New England: $18,000 · EducationUniversity of New Englan…Texas A&M Foundation: $14,656 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationOcean First Institute: $9,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $8,933 · EducationPEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyMERROW FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Science & Tech
Other$792,110Education$221,089Philanthropy$18,000Science & Tech$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of New England: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $14,656 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean First Institute: $9,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $8,933 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

American Chemical Soc…The Trustees of Colum…National Collegiate A…National Fish and Wil…Tulsa Community Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Chemical SocietyDC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Consortium for Ocean Leadership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Consortium for Ocean Leadership?

Find your warmest path to Consortium for Ocean Leadership through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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