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McPike Zima Charitable Foundation US
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $265k
Anchored by a single position: about 98% of reported assets are held in Vidaquant Llc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE | $265,000 |
| T1 INTERNATIONAL | $192,096 |
| OUTLAW OCEAN PROJECT | $175,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AFRICA AMINI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA DEBRIS PR | $80,000 |
| MOVING WINDMILL PROJECT | $75,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIG AGENCY | $75,000 |
| AMAZON FRONTLINES | $65,000 |
| MOORE INSTITUTE FOR PLASTIC POL | $62,000 |
| BIMINI BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE STORY OF STUFF PROJECT | $55,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT | $50,000 |
| OCEANS FORWARD | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OCEAN RESCUE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 33% of McPike Zima Charitable Foundation US’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 16%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OPOO PROJECT4× · 2021–2024 · $676k · revenue +241%
- TSTHE SONIA NABETA FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $539k · revenue +147% · 33% of their budget
- PIPERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE3× · 2022–2024 · $480k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- 3A3 AXIS ADVISORSone grant, 2021 · $115k
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $65k
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.
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.
Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Expose the truth. protect the planet. we expose complex, global environmental issues and promote advocacy through the use of film, photography, social media, and collaboration.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
To empower the global underwater science community with the tools and expertise required to explore the greatest depths of the planet's largest and deepest bodies of water and return with discoveries that amaze and inspire a global…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
OneReefs mission is to ensure healthy ocean ecosystems and thriving coastal communities across the Pacific.
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
To inspire people to care for and protect our ocean planet through education and research.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 40 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.
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- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANS FORWARD ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McPike Zima Charitable Foundation US funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McPike Zima Charitable Foundation US. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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