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Ferris Olson Family Foundation for Ocean Stewardship
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BAY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OCEAN RESCUE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,950 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions.
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
Ocean Alliance Project protects and promotes the marine biodiversity of Hawaii through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, community education, and regenerative tourism programs. The organization conducts scientific scuba-based…
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.
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
Marine Conservation
Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life and the ecosystems on which they depend, and to share our innovative science to guide conservation action.
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Marine research
Our mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education.
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferris Olson Family Foundation for Ocean Stewardship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferris Olson Family Foundation for Ocean Stewardship. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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