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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $299,573 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $847,766 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $548,193 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wildpath | $185,000 |
| The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel | $30,000 |
| Migramar | $24,581 |
| The Kohala Center Inc | $20,000 |
| Northern Chumash Tribal Council | $20,000 |
| The Florida Int'l University Board of Trustees | $19,992 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $495k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $463k to organizations and $32k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General support · Support a strong MPA in the sea of Peru · Grant
Stated purpose: Support seagrass program · General support
Stated purpose: Kelp initiative grant · General support · Support Diving, Education Art Program
Stated purpose: General support
Stated purpose: General support
Stated purpose: Sustain the Verde Island Passage
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
The nmmf's mission is to improve and protect life for marine mammals, humans, and our shared oceans through science, service, and education. our vision is to be the leading laboratory in marine mammal science, where critical questions…
To inspire lifelong environmental stewardship and to ensure the survival of coral reefs and sea turtles in hawaii through science-based conservation efforts, education and outreach.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
Environmental and water protection and education
Our mission is to conserve marine wildlife and habitats by deepening the connections between people and nature.
The marine mammal center advances global ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education. the center's work is guided and inspired by a shared vision of a healthy ocean for marine…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Migramar and the most unlike its peers is Mother of Corals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SeaLegacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIGRAMAR ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE IN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR MARINE MAMMALOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOCEANA ↗
- Who funds MOTHER OF CORALS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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