California · Nonprofit
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,314,516 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($671,975). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Inst does
Mission
To rescue, treat, and rehabilitate sick and injured marine mammals in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties and the Channel Islands area and to further medical and clinical research in the furtherance of marine mammal rescue and veterinary medicine conducted throughout California and the United States.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation rescued, treated, rehabilitated, and released approximately 200 pinnipeds (sea lions and seals) during 2015, documenting and promulgating successful treatment, rehabilitation, and capture and release methodologies to the American and worldwide animal rescue and veterinary communities.
$819,250 spentof which $784,323 as grants$255,659 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $819,250.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.8M to $3.0M (+66%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 61% · 2019 48% · 2020 57% · 2021 40% · 2022 26% · 2023 74% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $97k → $728k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST’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
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 62% · 2019 47% · 2020 62% · 2021 83% · 2022 42% · 2023 79% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $260k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $530k on record.
- Department of Commerce$530k
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 CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST?
- CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,314,516 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($671,975). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,314,516 in grants to CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $671,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing