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FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER

FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,384,920 to it, the largest being MASSEN GREENE FOUNDATION ($1,662,500). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.7M
Revenue FY2024
115
Funders on record
$8.4M
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
62/115 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 47 ($1.4M) Expenses 118 ($2.2M) Net assets 93 ($9.8M)2019 Revenue 137 ($4.2M) Expenses 134 ($2.5M) Net assets 109 ($12M)2020 Revenue 139 ($4.3M) Expenses 139 ($2.6M) Net assets 125 ($13M)2021 Revenue 186 ($5.8M) Expenses 174 ($3.3M) Net assets 149 ($16M)2022 Revenue 91 ($2.8M) Expenses 193 ($3.6M) Net assets 141 ($15M)2023 Revenue 240 ($7.4M) Expenses 203 ($3.8M) Net assets 175 ($19M)2024 Revenue 150 ($4.7M) Expenses 212 ($4.0M) Net assets 183 ($19M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (212)Net assets (183)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 13% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.2M
17
$773k
18
$1.7M
19
$1.7M
20
$2.5M
21
$820k
22
$3.6M
23
$667k
24
2.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $353k → $1.5M.

22 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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

FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

31% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER.

20%
largest funder
38%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 20% · 2023 29%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

55% of FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

60% of FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 115 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $122k on record.

Federal$122k
grants $122kcontracts $0
21
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$122k

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 FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 15%Fundraising 12%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: 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 FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER?
FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,384,920 to it, the largest being MASSEN GREENE FOUNDATION ($1,662,500). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER have?
IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $8,384,920 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER?
MASSEN GREENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,662,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 115funders 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