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ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED
ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,000 to it, the largest being ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Forsythia Foundation Incshared funders
- Ocean Conservancyportfolio match
- Coastal Questportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
90% of ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $509k → $991k.
From the IRS filings of ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
60% of ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Forsythia Foundation Incshared fundersDC · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Ocean Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Erm Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- El Gato Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodard & Curran Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Curtis & Edith Munson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- True North Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Biolabs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- National Science Foundation$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED?
- ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,510,000 to it, the largest being ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES ($900,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,510,000 in grants to ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED?
- ALTASEA AT THE PORT OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTASEADS CONSERVANCY DBA KELP ARK - THE GLOBAL MACROALGAE SEED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing