· Private foundation
Sea Otter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $11,050 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWESTOVER SCHOOL INC2× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +14%
- CACONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +32%
- KLKEZAR LAKE WATERSHED ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- MGMAINE GRAIN ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +34%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%- TTTHROUGH THESE DOORSone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +9%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Alliance of wild harvesters of the waters off of new england dedicated, to educating the public about how best to manage our seafood resources through sound science & best practices of conversation used by fishermen
Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…
The mission of Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & The Environment is to transform our relationship with farming and food for a healthier planet.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Wholesome wave, inc. inspires underserved consumers to make healthier food choices by increasing affordable access to fresh, local and regional food.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
An agricultural organization that promotes agriculture, farm research and foster cooperative buying for basic farm supplies for the mutual benefit of its members.
To provide skilled, professional ambulance service to those in need of basic and advanced life support, and related services, in the western berks county area.
Emergency ambulance services for 911 response. We primarily serve the three adjacent communities of Mars Hill Blaine and Bridgewater Maine and the unorganized townships nearby.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Food well alliance provides resources and support to local growers to connect and build healthier communities.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sea Otter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sea Otter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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