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Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue

Explore protect the ocean by advancing public awareness of the oceans importance as Earths life support system, furthering scientific knowledge of ocean systems igniting public support for a network of MPAs--Hope Spots--Mission Blue aims to save and restore the ocean. Collectively, with the ocean community, our goal is 30 protection by…

$848k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$300k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$24,581
Largest grant, FY2024
$185,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$300k83%
FY20236$248k100%
FY20221$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$261kHealth$185kAnimals$87kArts & Culture$20kEducation$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wildpath LLC$185,0001n/a
SeaLegacy Foundation Inc$125,00015%
The Seattle Aquarium Society$50,00010%
Migramar$31,58123%
The American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Inc$30,00011%
Marine Megafauna Foundation$30,00014%
Society for Marine Mammalogy Research Institute$25,00012%
The Kohala Center$20,00011%
Northern Chumash Tribal Council$20,00011%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$19,99210%
Innoceana$18,00012%
Mother of Corals$17,8801n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeaLegacy Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetThe Seattle Aquarium Society: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMigramar: $31,581 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMarine Megafauna Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSociety for Marine Mammalogy Research Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Kohala Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorthern Chumash Tribal Council: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $19,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInnoceana: $18,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 10.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue?

Find your warmest path to Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue 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 Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue

How much does Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue give?
Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue reported 6 itemized grants totaling $299,573, out of $847,766 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (46%), Health (32%), Animals (15%).
Who are Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Wildpath LLC ($185k), SeaLegacy Foundation Inc ($125k), The Seattle Aquarium Society ($50k).
Does Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue based?
Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue 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 12 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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