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Pacific Whale Foundation

Protect the ocean through science and advocacy and inspire environmental stewardship, remaining steadfastly dedicated to saving the world's whales and dolphins from extinction through research, education, (see schedule o)

$497k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
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Itemized, FY2024
$300k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The People's Fund$100,00011%
Treecovery Inc$75,000114%
The Lahaina Restoration Foundation$75,00011%
Grants Central Station$50,00015%

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Pacific Whale Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pacific Whale Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Pacific Whale Foundation

How much does Pacific Whale Foundation give?
Pacific Whale Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $300,000, out of $497,147 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Pacific Whale Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (100%).
Who are Pacific Whale Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: The People's Fund ($100k), Treecovery Inc ($75k), The Lahaina Restoration Foundation ($75k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Pacific Whale Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Pacific Whale Foundation based?
Pacific Whale Foundation is based in HI.

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 4 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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