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Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc

Sustainable ocean alliance empowers the next generation to become leaders in preserving the health and sustainability of our ocean.

$381k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$139kCivil Rights$24k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $381,441 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $368,641 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE LATITUDES LLC$6,400
NOBLE OCEAN FARMS$6,400
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLUE LATITUDES LLC: $15k → 10%REELER INC: $10k → 9%PEACE BOAT US: $24k → 17%GULF OF MEXICO REEF FISH SHAREHOLDERS' ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $8k → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $9k → 13%OONEE: $8k → 9%NOBLE OCEAN FARMS LLC: $13k → 7%FISHERMAN FRESH: $12k → 11%GLASS HALF FULL: $15k → 23%MAINE CENTER FOR COASTAL FISHERIES: $8k → 11%BLUE LATITUDES LLC: $6k → 10%NOBLE OCEAN FARMS: $10k → 7%NOBLE OCEAN FARMS: $6k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
NY
RI
CA
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $281k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $84k to organizations and $197k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$97k · 34% · 1 grant · 17 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

Central America and the Caribbean$54k · 19% · 1 grant · 25 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

Sub-Saharan Africa$39k · 14% · 1 grant · 14 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

South America$32k · 11% · 1 grant · 18 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$31k · 11% · 21 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$29k · 10% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

South Asia$200 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: MICROGRANTS & SPONSORSHIPS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE LATITUDES LLC: $21,400 · OtherBLUE LATITUDES LLCNOBLE OCEAN FARMS: $16,400 · OtherNOBLE OCEAN FARMSGLASS HALF FULL: $15,000 · OtherGLASS HALF FULLNOBLE OCEAN FARMS LLC: $12,500 · OtherNOBLE OCEAN FARMS LLCFISHERMAN FRESH: $12,000 · OtherFISHERMAN FRESHREELER INC: $10,000 · OtherREELER INCEATING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM INC: $8,606 · OtherEATING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM INCUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8,560 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAOONEE: $8,120 · OtherOONEEMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $8,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCPEACE BOAT US INC: $24,119 · Civil RightsPEACE BOAT US IN…Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $8,000 · Science & Tech
Other$120,586Civil Rights$24,119Community Improvement$10,000Science & Tech$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEACE BOAT US INC: $24,119 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEATING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM INC: $8,606 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

  • Who funds PEACE BOAT US INC ↗
  • Who funds Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance ↗
  • Who funds EATING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Sustainable Ocean Alliance Inc 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.

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 13 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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