California · Nonprofit
CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL
CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,605 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($162,237). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $341k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $261k
What Clean Oceans International does
Mission
Our Mission: Reduce oceanic plastic pollution through Research, Innovation, and Direct Action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization advances its mission to reduce oceanic plastic pollution through three core initiatives: the Environmental Plastic Assessment Program (EPAP), the Portable Plastic Waste Conversion (PPWC) project, and Education & Outreach. The EPAP program collects and analyzes data on marine and coastal plastic debris, engaging volunteers and partner organizations in cleanup operations and surveys throughout the year. These activities generate valuable research data while fostering public awareness and community participation in ocean conservation. Through the PPWC project, the organization designs and deploys portable systems that convert collected plastic waste into usable products or energy sources, demonstrating innovative and sustainable waste management solutions. The Education & Outreach component complements these efforts by promoting environmental awareness, sharing research findings, and encouraging responsible practices to reduce plastic pollution. During FY25 COI reached approximately 550 people through Education and Outreach.
$133,707 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $133,707.
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 2024 to 2025, from $164k to $262k (+60%).
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.
99% of CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $82k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 OCEANS INTERNATIONAL’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
CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 OCEANS INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 74% — broadly stable.
“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
67% of CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
75% of CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 OCEANS INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 OCEANS INTERNATIONAL: 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 OCEANS INTERNATIONAL?
- CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,605 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($162,237). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $221,605 in grants to CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN OCEANS INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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