· Public charity
Global Fishing Watch Inc
Global fishing watch advances ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $1,283,802 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,114,784 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $830,982 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
- $250k+2 grants · $960k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKYTRUTH INC | $692,718 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA -SANTA BARBARA | $267,030 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $218,861 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $74,760 |
| INTERNATIONAL MONITORING CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE NETWORK FOR FISHERIES | $30,433 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $831k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT STOPPING ILLEGAL TRAWLING IN PROTECTED AREAS. · IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION OF PORT STATE CONTROLS AND REDUCE ILLEGALLY-CAUGHT FISH.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT STOPPING ILLEGAL TRAWLING IN PROTECTED AREAS.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SSKYTRUTH4× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +640%
- IPIMPACT PHILANTHROPY GROUP4× · 2021–2024 · $444k · revenue +1%
- DUDUKE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $378k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIESone grant, 2022 · $94k · revenue +12%
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $70k · revenue +44%- PSPractical Solutionsone grant, 2019 · $28k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The mission of the allen institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach. the allen institute focuses on accelerating…
The institute for defense analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. the institute for defense analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers…
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oceana Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 SKYTRUTH ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT PHILANTHROPY GROUP ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS INC ↗
- Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
- Who funds OCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ↗
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: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Global Fishing Watch Inc 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.
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.