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Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc

The guy harvey foundation (ghf) collaborates with local and international organizations to conduct scientific research and host educational programs aimed at better understanding and conserving the ocean environment.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MEnvironment$185kScience & Tech$156kAnimals$60kArts & Culture$41kFood & Nutrition$25kInternational$15kHuman Services$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $81,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $187,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $106,163 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.
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$46,000
CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY$25,000
MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY INC$10,000
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILDLIFE FOREVER: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JAMAICA: $15k → 17%MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY INC: $10k → 14%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $8k → 9%TAMPA BAY WATCH: $10k → 12%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $272k → 13%LIFTING HANDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CONVOY OF HOPE: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%BEYOND OUR SHORES: $66k → 7%CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $50k → 19%WILDLIFE FOREVER: $5k → 14%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 13%BEYOND OUR SHORES: $40k → 7%CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $25k → 19%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $194k → 13%CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $25k → 19%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $180k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $170k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $170k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $49k → 13%OCEAN EXCHANGE: $11k → 13%OCEAN EXCHANGE: $11k → 13%OCEAN EXCHANGE: $10k → 13%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION: $16k → 13%INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%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

MN
NY
RI
CA
MO
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 56%.

Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 25% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 8 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$2.0M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+196%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalScience & 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

  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +39%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +45%
  • BO
    BEYOND OUR SHORES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $106k · revenue +345% · 83% of their budget

Funded once

  • AF
    American Friends of Jamaica Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +49%
  • UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +234%
  • TB
    TAMPA BAY WATCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +88%
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
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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2
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science & Tech
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
5
Ocean Research and Educational
Science & Tech
6
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
7
Global Foundation for Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Inc
Philanthropy
8
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The florida aquarium's mission focuses on our shared purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a vision to be florida's leading conservation-based aquarium. (continued on schedule o)

Animals
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
11
Ocean First Institute

The mission of Ocean First Institute is ocean conservation through research and education. We work to deepen the natural connection between people and the ocean. We educate and empower people to understand the ocean is our life support…

Education
12
Clean Reefs
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa Bay Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nova Southeastern University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nova Southeastern University Inc: $1,535,563 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 · Education+1 more: $11,687 · EducationCENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $175,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR SPORTF…BEYOND OUR SHORES INC: $106,365 · EnvironmentBEYOND OUR SHORES…OCEAN EXCHANGE INC: $32,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN EXCHANGE IN…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentSHARK ALLIES: $50,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE FOREVER: $10,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $41,400 · Arts & CultureCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $15,000 · InternationalMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $7,749 · OtherLIFTING HANDS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,200 · OtherMarine Technology Society Inc: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Education$1,614,250Environment$323,365Animals$60,000Arts & Culture$41,400International$40,000Other$12,949Science & Tech$10,000

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 budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,535,563 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SPORTFISHING POLICY: $175,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetBEYOND OUR SHORES INC: $106,365 over 2y, 83% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $67,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARK ALLIES: $50,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $41,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOCEAN EXCHANGE INC: $32,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $11,687 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE FOREVER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAMPA BAY WATCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarine Technology Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $7,749 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% 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
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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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