California · Nonprofit
GET INSPIRED
GET INSPIRED (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,228 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,128). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $355k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $811k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Get Inspired does
Mission
We seek to inspire stewardship and curiosity for the natural world through the exploration and hands-on application of science.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Green Abalone restoration project- we outplanted 57 eight-year-old abalone on the Orange County coast this year. We have seven classrooms of students growing them in schools and we have trained 60 volunteers to help us survey them on our coast. We teach students ocean chemistry, aquaculture, abalone anatomy, kelp forest ecology in a year long program in schools to compliment this restoration work so that young people know the story of how our abalone disappeared. We are preparing a publication summarizing all the work we have done on our reefs to locate and measure abalone populations. We are working with local and state government to relocate an imperiled population of abalone.
$132,508 spent$116,246 earned by the program53% of program spendingWhite Seabass restocking project- We are teaching five classrooms of students (1600 kids) to grow white seabass in their classroom for release along our coast. Students learn about ocean chemistry, aquaculture, kelp forest ecology, and conservation while growing the seabass for release in December and June. Students also have the opportunity to snorkel to see the underwater world for the first time.
$15,196 spent$35,343 earned by the program6% of program spendingAquaponics programs- We are teaching this program to 680 students at 4 schools. Students are learning how to grow crops and fish together in a closed system. This form of food production is viable in places where water is scarce and allows us to grow food where we live while teaching valuable lessons in water chemistry, fish biology, and plant biology. This is considered a "green tech" job and we hope to inspired kids to get jobs in this field.
$12,399 spent$35,343 earned by the program5% of program spendingPismo clam restoration project- We are surveying the Orange County coast for Pismo clams to complete a population assessment while we are attempting to learn how to culture them by having kids conduct experiments with us in classrooms. We conducted 15 clam surveys with more than 400 volunteers and worked with 360 students in middle and high school to try and figure out how to grow them. We had two high school students present their research at local science conferences and we are partnering with a local shellfish farm to further our research.
$50,063 spent$81,573 earned by the program20% of program spendingNorcal Kelp- A marine heatwave destroyed 600 miles of kelp forest on California's north coast. More than 800 species rely on them. With over 10 years experience restoring kelp in Southern California, we have started a project to help restore these lost forests in Mendocino County. Last year, we removed 23,746 pounds of purple sea urchins from urchin barrens in Caspar cove.
$34,021 spent$35,709 earned by the program14% of program spendingKelp Sargassum- After restoring the giant kelp forests of Orange County, California, we continue to monitor their health and survey for invasive species. We conduct 8 different surveys twice a year with 10 volunteer divers and work with student interns to analyze and present our data to the community.
$5,364 spent$9,338 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $249,551.
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 $739k to $908k (+23%).
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.
93% of GET INSPIRED’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 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $118k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 GET INSPIRED’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
GET INSPIRED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 GET INSPIRED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 44% · 2019 38% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 47% · 2023 37% — 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
40% of GET INSPIRED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
56% of GET INSPIRED'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 $357k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $455k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GET INSPIRED holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GET INSPIRED
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GET INSPIRED: 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 GET INSPIRED?
- GET INSPIRED (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $811,228 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($250,128). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GET INSPIRED have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $811,228 in grants to GET INSPIRED, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GET INSPIRED?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GET INSPIRED 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 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