How much does Ocean Conservancy give?

Ocean Conservancy reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,305,736, out of $1,618,417 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ocean Conservancy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (73%), Science & Tech (13%), Civil Rights (3%).

Who are Ocean Conservancy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska ($961k), Arizona State University ($847k), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ($735k).

Does Ocean Conservancy fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ocean Conservancy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Alaska Community Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Where is Ocean Conservancy based?

Ocean Conservancy is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Ocean Conservancy

OCEAN CONSERVANCY unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 29
Itemized grants FY2025: 42
Organizations funded FY2024: 36%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $253,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 59; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $98M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Ocean Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $527k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	28	$1.2M	50%
FY2024	42	$2.3M	36%
FY2023	59	$2.8M	76%
FY2022	25	$1.3M	44%
FY2021	21	$966k	76%
FY2020	7	$525k	43%
FY2019	12	$341k	67%
FY2018	8	$480k	75%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$7.6MScience & Tech$1.4MCivil Rights$352kPhilanthropy$350kEducation$281kArts & Culture$212kCommunity Improvement$133kAnimals$63kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska	$961,000	5	96%
Arizona State University	$847,393	5	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$734,608	5	0%
Global Resilient Cities Network	$669,060	4	13%
Pacific Environment and Resources Center	$560,000	1	11%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$458,446	5	1%
The Ocean Foundation	$418,000	6	1%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$269,000	3	0%
Tribal Government of St Paul Island	$264,129	5	n/a
Kawerak Inc	$253,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Ocean Conservancy by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska	$961,000	5	96%
Arizona State University	$847,393	5	n/a
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc	$734,608	5	0%
Global Resilient Cities Network	$669,060	4	13%
Pacific Environment and Resources Center	$560,000	1	11%
Native American Rights Fund Inc	$458,446	5	1%
The Ocean Foundation	$418,000	6	1%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$269,000	3	0%
Tribal Government of St Paul Island	$264,129	5	n/a
Kawerak Inc	$253,000	1	n/a
University of South Florida	$237,518	1	n/a
Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation	$212,255	4	28%
Yakutat Tlinglt Tribe	$205,821	3	n/a
Asociacion Interamericana Para la Defensa del Ambiente	$172,894	2	2%
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$143,145	1	0%
Ccthita	$140,840	2	n/a
Dream in Green Inc	$136,999	6	15%
Regents of the University of California	$133,867	3	n/a
Big Blue & You Inc	$129,002	2	25%
Native Peoples Action Community Fund	$120,500	2	20%
Debris Free Global Inc D/B/A Debris Free Oceans	$120,466	1	62%
Bering Sea Fishermens Association	$120,000	2	4%
Alaska Conservation Foundation	$115,000	2	1%
First Alaskans Institute	$108,181	3	4%
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance	$105,000	3	6%
Black in Marine Science	$90,000	2	3%
Green 20	$90,000	4	3%
Diving With a Purpose and Development Group Inc	$80,000	2	30%
Environmental Leadership Program Inc	$66,500	2	3%
California Council of Land Trusts Action Fund	$65,000	1	51%
Aleut International Association	$60,000	2	9%
Carroll Ministries International	$60,000	2	n/a
Kuskokwim River Inter Tribal Fish Commission	$50,050	1	n/a
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance Inc	$50,000	2	0%
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (Woeip)	$50,000	3	2%
Aina Momona	$45,000	2	1%
Native Village of Eyak	$40,000	2	n/a
University of Miami	$40,000	2	0%
Ndponics	$40,000	1	3%
Kodiak Area Native Association	$40,000	1	n/a
OceansAlaska	$40,000	2	7%
Ecology Center	$40,000	3	0%
Eastern Woodland Protectors	$40,000	1	n/a
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc	$40,000	2	11%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc	$37,990	2	0%
Society of the Flora Fauna and Friend	$33,000	2	n/a
Ti Ayiti Preparedness & Relief Inst	$33,000	2	n/a
Live Healthy Havana Inc	$33,000	2	5%
People Economic and Environmental Resiliency Group Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Occidental College	$30,000	2	0%
Greater Works Foundation	$30,000	2	n/a
Alaska Marine Community Coalition	$30,000	1	4%
Bridge the Gap Outreach Center	$30,000	2	31%
Rushmere Community Development Corporation	$30,000	2	n/a
Hampton Roads Greenhouse Project LLC	$30,000	2	n/a
Smelts Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society	$30,000	1	6%
The Surfrider Foundation	$26,500	1	0%
Center for Coastal Studies Inc	$25,700	2	0%
Native Village of Paimiut	$25,012	1	n/a
Native Conservancy	$25,000	1	1%
Robert Aqqaluk Newlin Sr Memorial Trust	$25,000	1	1%
Renewable Energy Alaska Project	$25,000	1	1%
University of Florida	$24,000	1	n/a
The Resistance	$20,000	1	n/a
Gullah Geechee Angel Network	$20,000	1	n/a
Ocean First Institute	$20,000	1	5%
Loyola University	$20,000	1	0%
Climate Resilient Communities	$20,000	1	2%
Glassroots	$20,000	1	19%
Kua Aina Ulu Auamo	$20,000	1	2%
The BRidge Agency INC	$20,000	1	10%
Minorities in Aquaculture	$20,000	1	n/a
Mid City Redevelopment Alliance	$20,000	1	3%
Black Surf Santa Cruz Inc	$20,000	1	9%
7075-B Hampton Branch	$20,000	1	n/a
JK Reed Community Resource Center Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Old South Baton Rouge Economic Redevelopment Group	$20,000	1	n/a
Mycelium Youth Network	$20,000	1	3%
Girls Play Trumpets Too	$20,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Environment Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Junebug Productions Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Mariposa DR Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
My Village Project Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Resources Legacy Fund	$20,000	2	0%
Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals	$20,000	1	8%
The Partnership Project Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Ideas for US Inc	$17,180	1	n/a
Paso Pacifico	$16,960	2	1%
Rozalia Project	$15,000	1	n/a
Hawaii Pacific University	$15,000	1	0%
Sol Margin Fishing & Conservation Foundation	$15,000	1	n/a
Native Village of Port Heiden	$15,000	1	n/a
Ocean Awareness Project Inc	$15,000	1	4%
Virginia Organizing Inc	$14,000	1	0%
Native Village of Afognak	$13,750	1	n/a
Organized Village of Kake	$13,750	1	n/a
American Littoral Society	$11,000	1	0%
Longwood University Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Scuba Dogs Society Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Sereia Films Inc	$10,000	1	20%
Qawalangin Tribal Council	$10,000	1	n/a
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Community Partners	$10,000	1	0%
National Parks Conservation Association	$10,000	1	0%
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc	$10,000	1	0%
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Sitka Sound Science Center Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Takshanuk Watershed Council	$10,000	1	2%
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies	$10,000	1	1%
Save Our Shores	$10,000	1	2%
Save the Bay Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Deep South Center for Environmental	$10,000	1	n/a
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation	$8,100	1	0%
Earth Law Center	$7,500	1	n/a
Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Friends of Padre Inc	$7,500	1	5%
Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove	$7,500	1	n/a
Keep America Beautiful System of New Hanover County	$6,350	1	n/a
Living Classrooms Foundation	$6,000	1	0%
Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation	$5,413	1	n/a

Ocean Conservancy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 81.

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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.

Resources Legacy FundCA32.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Resources Legacy Fund · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Alaska Conservation Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Patagoniaorg · Rasmuson Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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.

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About Ocean Conservancy

How much does Ocean Conservancy give?: Ocean Conservancy reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,305,736, out of $1,618,417 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ocean Conservancy fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (73%), Science & Tech (13%), Civil Rights (3%).
Who are Ocean Conservancy's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska ($961k), Arizona State University ($847k), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ($735k).
Does Ocean Conservancy fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ocean Conservancy?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Resources Legacy Fund, The Alaska Community Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Where is Ocean Conservancy based?: Ocean Conservancy is based in DC.