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Sima Environmental Fund

The specific purpose of this corporation is to server as the environmental arm of the surf industry manufactures association ("sima") by raising money from the public through fundraisers and solicitations and using such funds to promote and support ecological and environmental organizations.

$250k
Granted FY2018
10
Itemized grants FY2018
10
Organizations funded FY2018
30%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$221k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$11,250
Largest grant, FY2018
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$137k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 30% of the organizations Sima Environmental Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201810$221k30%
FY20177$141kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Environment$352kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Surfrider Foundation$204,63021%
Wildcoast$43,60021%
Save the Waves Coalition$23,05022%
Heal the Bay$19,94020%
Orange County Coastkeeper$18,69020%
Ocean Institute$17,44020%
Surfing Education Association$15,2602n/a
The 5 Gyres Institute$7,50011%
Clean Ocean Action Inc$6,25011%
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc$6,25011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sima Environmental Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $204,630 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWildcoast: $43,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition: $23,050 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHeal the Bay: $19,940 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper: $18,690 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOcean Institute: $17,440 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetClean Ocean Action Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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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 9.

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.

The Marisla FoundationPatagoniaorgSilicon Valley Commun…Resources Legacy FundOrange County Communi…Marin Community Found…Sempra FoundationNetwork for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…
The Marisla FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marisla Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Orange County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Sima Environmental Fund?

Find your warmest path to Sima Environmental Fund 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 Sima Environmental Fund

How much does Sima Environmental Fund give?
Sima Environmental Fund reported 10 itemized grants totaling $221,250, out of $250,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Sima Environmental Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Religion (3%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Sima Environmental Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: The Surfrider Foundation ($205k), Wildcoast ($44k), Save the Waves Coalition ($23k).
Does Sima Environmental Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sima Environmental Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Marisla Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Sima Environmental Fund based?
Sima Environmental Fund is based in CA.

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 11 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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