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WSL Pure

WSL PUREs mission is to inspire educate and empower ocean protection starting with the global surf community. WSL PURE does this through its partnership with the World Surf League WSL leveraging the global platform of the WSL to reach the surf community with educational and inspirational content focused on ocean conservation.

$233k
Granted FY2023
3
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$44k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$357k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations WSL Pure funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EnvironmentEducation
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$44k100%
FY20223$72k100%
FY20214$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Science & Tech$209kEnvironment$174k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Na Kama Kai$27,00016%
Conservation International Foundation$25,00010%
Kokua Hawaii Foundation$25,00012%
One World Bridge$25,000114%
Heal the Bay$20,00010%
Malama Pupukea-Waimea$19,8501n/a
Wildcoast$12,50010%
The North Shore Community Land Trust$10,00012%
Ocean Policy Lab Inc$10,00015%
University of Hawaii Foundation$8,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget WSL Pure supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNa Kama Kai: $27,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKokua Hawaii Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOne World Bridge: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHeal the Bay: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWildcoast: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe North Shore Community Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOcean Policy Lab Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

PatagoniaorgCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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About WSL Pure

How much does WSL Pure give?
WSL Pure reported 3 itemized grants totaling $43,500, out of $233,454 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does WSL Pure fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Science & Tech (54%), Environment (46%).
Who are WSL Pure's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Na Kama Kai ($27k), Conservation International Foundation ($25k), Kokua Hawaii Foundation ($25k).
Does WSL Pure fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as WSL Pure?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is WSL Pure based?
WSL Pure 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $180k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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