· Public charity
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Oceana Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Tides Center, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Oceana Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $479k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $479,297 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,115,958 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $636,661 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 · FY2020
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC (CSIS) | $180,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND (WWF) | $180,000 |
| CLEAN COASTS CLEAN WATER CLEAN STREETS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $34,297 |
| SURF INDUSTRY MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION (SIMA) | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $791k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUBGRANT TO SUPPORT THE COALITION FOR FISHERIES TRANSPARENCY, INCLUDING BY CO-CHAIRING THE COALITION AND ALLOCATING EJF STAFF TIME TO ADVANCE THE COALITION'S ADVOCACY EFFORTS. · EDUCATE INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF THE SAILING AND BOATING COMMUNITY TOWARD RESTORING OCEAN HEALTH
Stated purpose: SUPPORT OCEANA CANADA'S ACTIVITIES TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE THE BOUNTY OF THE OCEAN AND PROTECT OCEAN RESOURCES IMPORTANT FOR THE ECONOMY AND COMMUNITIES.
Stated purpose: CONSOLIDATE A COMMERCIALIZATION & MARKETING MODEL FOR SOUTHERN HAKE IN COMMUNITIES IN THE AYSEN REGION · EQUIPMENT FOR BLUE NATURE ALLIANCE OFFICE · SUPPORT THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF STOCK ENHANCEMENT AND SEA RANCHING 2024.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Oceana Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- GFGLOBAL FISHING WATCH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3.6M · revenue ×12
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES5× · 2020–2024 · $771k · revenue +27%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC3× · 2020–2022 · $565k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SSKYTRUTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $657k · revenue +184% · 40% of their budget
- TWTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +236%
- BOBRING ON THE MUSIC INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +9%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shorefast Us Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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.
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 GLOBAL FISHING WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SKYTRUTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SURF INDUSTRY MEMBERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRING ON THE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CLEAN COASTS CLEAN WATER CLEAN STREETS ENVIRONMENTALISTS RECYCLERS AND FARMER ↗
- Who funds SIMA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SHOREFAST US FUND ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Oceana 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.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
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.