New York · Nonprofit
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,540 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($265,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $946k
- Net assets
- $160k
What Captain Paul Watson Foundation does
Mission
Defending sea life and preventing illegal operations across the ocean.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended December 31, 2024, the organization FOCUSED ON FUNDING other organizations that ran the following programs.OPERATION ICE STORM is focused on saving 169 endangered Fin Whales from being slaughtered by HVALUR HF, an Icelandic whaling company operated by by Kristj N Loftsson. Despite the global moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Iceland continues to permite this. Operation Paiakan has been established in response. Through the use of aggressive non-violence and direct intervention, The Captain Paul Watson Foundation intends to uphold international conservation law to save the lives of 169 Fin Whales.OPERATION KANJI MARU - Our mission is to stop the Japanese whaling ship Kangei Maru, the worlds largest industrial whale killing machine. Our destination is the North Pacific and to get there we need to transit the Northwest passage on our ship the M/Y John Paul DeJoria.OPERATION OCEAN KILLERS - Unleashing havoc on our oceans, super trawlers are rapidly depleting marine resources and disrupting thriving ecosystems. These colossal factory ships leave a trail of destruction in their path, producing high rates of…
$1,328,097 spentof which $1,322,853 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,328,097.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $69k to $160k (+133%).
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.
100% of CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (68% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION’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
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION.
“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
56% of CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $421k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 8 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Neptunes Navy Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION?
- CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $945,540 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($265,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $945,540 in grants to CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $265,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 24 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing