Tennessee · Public charity
Rock the Ocean Foundation
Increase public awareness about the issues impacting the world's ocean and to support scientific research, education and ocean conservation initiatives through benefit concerts and entertainment industry events.
- $298k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $263k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $47,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $431k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Rock the Ocean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $263k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $305k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $384k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $229k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Southeastern University Inc | $355,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sharks4kids Inc | $136,974 | 5 | 41% |
| Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation Inc | $115,500 | 6 | 5% |
| University of Miami | $105,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ocearch | $75,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | $67,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Sea Turtle Oversight Protection Inc | $58,500 | 4 | 20% |
| Guy Harvey Ocean Fund Inc | $53,100 | 4 | 1% |
| South Florida Wildlife Center Inc | $44,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Reef Environmental Education Foundation | $38,000 | 3 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Rock the Ocean Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Rock the Ocean Foundation
- How much does Rock the Ocean Foundation give?
- Rock the Ocean Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $262,500, out of $297,876 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Rock the Ocean Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (52%), Animals (25%), Education (17%).
- Who are Rock the Ocean Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nova Southeastern University Inc ($355k), Sharks4kids Inc ($137k), Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation Inc ($116k).
- Does Rock the Ocean Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rock the Ocean Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wye Foundation Inc, American Express Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Rock the Ocean Foundation based?
- Rock the Ocean Foundation is based in TN.
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