California · Nonprofit
CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION
CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,028 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 458 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 458 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- American Educational Research Associationshared funders
- Sea Turtle Conservancyportfolio match
- Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $28.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY 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
CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
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 CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- American Educational Research Associationshared fundersDC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- Sea Turtle Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ocean Reef Conservation Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan & George Craig Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orca Free Incportfolio 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.
Organizations like CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
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 CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: 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 CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION?
- CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,028 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,028 in grants to CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORDELL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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