New Jersey · Nonprofit
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,586,632 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($330,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Clean Ocean Action Inc does
Mission
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Clean ocean action, inc.(coa)is the only full-time coalition dedicated to improving the marine waters of the new york/new jersey region. Founded in 1984, coa brings together and empowers organizations, hundreds of businesses and thousands of citizens to protect nature's most important resource: the ocean. The professional staff includes phd's, an attorney, and several with master's degrees. The dynamic and effective team applies research, education, and citizen action to reduce sources of pollution and impacts from climate change with fact-based campaigns to implement environmentally-sound solutions. Coa also engages meaningful and authentic efforts to ensure environmental justice. Accomplishments: significant improvements to marine water quality by reducing sources of pollution, plastics, and climate change, including: ended ocean dumping of eight ocean dumpsites off the coast of nj blocked fossil fuel ocean industrialization, including five liquefied natural gas facilities and oil and gas drilling successfully led nj campaign to pass the nation's strongest single-use plastic reduction law passed the nation's strongest state law prohibiting offshore oil and gas activities with…
$845,045 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $845,045.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $3.0M (+29%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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 15 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $154k → $474k.
13 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 funders by total. 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
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $246k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$149k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$97k
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 CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC?
- CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,586,632 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($330,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $3,586,632 in grants to CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC?
- The Mental Insight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 89 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