How much does Restore America's Estuaries give?

Restore America's Estuaries reported 55 grants totaling $5,128,971 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Restore America's Estuaries fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (100%).

Who are Restore America's Estuaries's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Buzzards Bay Coalition ($988k), Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana ($945k), Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc ($882k).

Does Restore America's Estuaries fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Restore America's Estuaries?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.

Where is Restore America's Estuaries based?

Restore America's Estuaries is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Restore America's Estuaries

RESTORE AMERICA'S ESTUARIES is dedicated to the protection and restoration of bays and estuaries as essential resources for our nation.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 55
Grants FY2024: 46
Organizations funded FY2023: 28%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $47,235
Largest grant, FY2024: $580,458
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 46; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 13
Total assets, FY2024: $3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Restore America's Estuaries funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $752k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementScience & TechAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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
FY2024still arriving	55	$5.1M	51%
FY2023	46	$2.5M	28%
FY2022	40	$2.2M	28%
FY2021	41	$2.4M	27%
FY2020	31	$3.1M	26%
FY2019	27	$1.8M	41%
FY2018	19	$653k	47%
FY2017	13	$655k	n/a

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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 2024.

Environment$19M

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Buzzards Bay Coalition	$987,601	7	3%
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana	$944,732	7	23%
Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc	$882,480	7	22%
Tampa Bay Watch Inc	$854,438	8	8%
Falmouth Rod & Gun Club	$695,000	6	41%
City of Woonsocket	$687,500	2	n/a
University of Rhode Island	$667,197	5	n/a
City of Pawtucket	$664,327	6	n/a
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc	$459,731	8	1%
State of Connecticut	$449,951	3	n/a

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All grantees of Restore America's Estuaries by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Buzzards Bay Coalition	$987,601	7	3%
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana	$944,732	7	23%
Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc	$882,480	7	22%
Tampa Bay Watch Inc	$854,438	8	8%
Falmouth Rod & Gun Club	$695,000	6	41%
City of Woonsocket	$687,500	2	n/a
University of Rhode Island	$667,197	5	n/a
City of Pawtucket	$664,327	6	n/a
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc	$459,731	8	1%
State of Connecticut	$449,951	3	n/a
University of Rhode Island	$431,350	5	n/a
New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission	$417,297	6	1%
Barnstable County	$396,702	4	n/a
Groundwork Rhode Island	$391,799	5	14%
Town of Chatham	$377,276	6	n/a
Alabama Coastal Foundation Inc	$360,745	2	77%
Audubon Society of Rhode Island	$359,061	4	3%
Groundwork Lawrence Inc	$315,569	3	3%
Town of Bristol	$300,001	3	n/a
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$298,598	4	0%
City of Cranston	$262,795	4	n/a
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc	$255,000	1	1%
Woonasquatucket River Watershed	$243,835	4	6%
Martha's Vineyard Commission	$238,601	4	n/a
Bay Foundation of Morro Bay	$237,882	3	3%
Lowlander Center	$237,354	3	18%
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College	$232,306	3	0%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$230,237	4	0%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc	$217,607	2	1%
Eckerd College	$201,358	4	0%
West Virginia University Research Corporation	$195,273	3	0%
St Petersburg College	$173,224	3	n/a
Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation	$171,973	3	2%
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Inc	$167,648	2	n/a
Save the Bay Inc	$166,338	5	2%
Manatee County Community and Veteran Services Department	$149,585	3	n/a
Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program	$149,345	1	12%
Community Musicworks	$149,093	2	2%
Tampa Bay Estuary Program	$147,635	4	n/a
Harwich Conservation Trust	$146,700	3	2%
Marine Biological Laboratory	$143,000	3	0%
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc	$135,000	6	0%
American Littoral Society	$129,831	2	4%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation	$125,413	2	2%
City of Brockton - Treasurer's Office	$123,350	2	n/a
Earthcorps	$114,342	5	1%
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	$102,556	1	0%
Trustees of Clark University	$99,988	2	0%
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission	$99,301	2	n/a
Waquoit Bay Reserve Foundation Inc	$98,276	3	40%
Northern Rhode Island Cd	$96,546	6	n/a
Tillamook Estuaries Partnership	$95,422	1	4%
Rhode Island Chapter Trout Unlimited	$94,367	1	n/a
Town of Warren Rhode Island - Office of Planning & Community Department	$90,000	1	n/a
City of Newport	$85,278	3	n/a
National Audubon Society Inc	$84,900	2	0%
Bristol County Water Authority	$80,000	2	n/a
Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District	$79,932	2	7%
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc	$76,741	3	2%
Save The Bay	$75,000	3	1%
Houston Parks Board	$74,703	1	n/a
Collective Oyster Recycling & Restoration Foundation	$67,966	1	20%
Town of South Kingstown	$67,466	1	n/a
Energy Justice Law and Policy Center	$62,755	1	28%
Center for Coastal Studies Inc	$60,921	3	1%
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$60,000	3	1%
Alliance for Mystic River Watershed	$59,650	1	43%
Town of West Bridgewater	$58,401	1	n/a
Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group	$57,197	3	2%
Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District	$54,082	2	n/a
City of Houston	$53,017	1	n/a
Kwiaht Center for Salish Sea	$52,745	3	19%
The Point Community Development Corporation	$47,235	1	1%
University of Massachusetts	$44,411	1	n/a
Florida Audubon Society Inc	$42,900	1	5%
Hutchinson River Restoration Project	$38,994	1	61%
Save the Sound	$38,627	2	0%
University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement	$35,965	1	0%
Town of Tiverton Ri	$34,700	2	n/a
Environmental Leaders of Color Inc	$34,349	1	29%
Trout Unlimited Inc	$29,633	1	0%
Virginia Department of Conservation	$28,596	1	n/a
Citizens Campaign Fund for the Environment Inc	$28,230	1	2%
Providence School Department	$28,089	2	n/a
Regents of the University of Minnesota	$27,115	2	n/a
FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation	$25,600	1	n/a
Seatuck Environmental Association Inc	$23,974	1	2%
New College of Florida Development Corporation	$23,429	1	3%
Guardians of Flushing Bay Inc	$23,136	1	5%
Rocking the Boat Inc	$22,684	1	0%
Groundwork Bridgeport Inc	$22,364	1	6%
Bronx River Alliance Inc	$19,982	1	1%
Ocean County College Foundation	$17,191	1	1%
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation	$16,779	1	1%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$16,605	1	0%
Clean Ocean Access Inc	$14,983	2	2%
Westchester Land Trust Inc	$13,333	1	1%
Cascadia Research Collective	$10,246	1	1%
The Shores of Long Bayou	$10,000	1	n/a
Black in Marine Science	$10,000	1	1%
Housatonic Valley Association Inc	$8,604	1	1%
North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc	$7,977	1	0%
Mill River Wetland Committee Inc	$5,909	1	8%
Pocasset Water Quality Coalition Inc	$5,087	1	64%

Restore America's Estuaries supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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 71.

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC54.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Surdna Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Sarah Decoizart Perpetual Charitable Tr · The New York Community Trust · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family 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.

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About Restore America's Estuaries

How much does Restore America's Estuaries give?: Restore America's Estuaries reported 55 grants totaling $5,128,971 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Restore America's Estuaries fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Restore America's Estuaries's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Buzzards Bay Coalition ($988k), Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana ($945k), Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc ($882k).
Does Restore America's Estuaries fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Restore America's Estuaries?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Nature Conservancy.
Where is Restore America's Estuaries based?: Restore America's Estuaries is based in DC.