California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY
GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being CRAWFORD WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $952
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Global Orca Charity does
Mission
The Global Orca Charity's primary purpose is to promote research & conservation of wild & captive orca. We achieve these goals by providing charitable assistance for scientific research, public education and professional expertise to better understand and protect wild and captive orca (killer whales, Orcinus orca) and to advance global awareness of the species, as well as environmental threats and human impact on orca health and welfare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Punta Norte Research Project: Working in collaboration with the Punta Norte Orca Research (Argentina) and Orca Research Trust (New Zealand), the Global Orca Charity provided funding to facilitate the following: $62,000 for construction of a permanent research facility at Punta Norte; $4,800 for computer equipment, office furniture and supplies; $18,300 for a used jeep 4x4 vehicle for the use by researchers to access the remote field sites at Punta Norte, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina; $3,500 for tires, fuel, outfitting and maintenance of the Jeep 4x4 vehicle; $4,000 for purchase of two (2) wireless, self-contained hydrophones; and $3,150 to reimburse Matt Pine, Ph.D. Director of Ocean Acoustics Limited to travel to Punta Norte for purposes of overseeing the hydrophone deployment project. Directors Cazenave and Visser were present for the field season March-May 2025, at Punta Norte, Argentina, documenting the unique ecotype of orca which hunts by intentionally stranding. An additional two weeks was spent at Punta Norte during December 2025 where both Directors worked with the Punta Norte Orca Research team and international experts to install high-frequency hydrophones onto the reefs.
$95,750 spentof which $92,600 as grants100% of program spendingConferences / Workshops / Presentations: During the 5th International Orca Symposium (16-22 February 2025), at Tarifa Spain, a total of thirteen presentations (abstracts, oral, posters, video, workshops ) were supported by the GOC including (live and video presentations by Directors Cazenave, Fraleigh, Hardie, Makowski, Spiegl and Visser as follows: Bolaños-Jiménez, J., Visser, I. N. & Henriquez, A. (2025). The candidate IMMA "Southern Caribbean Upwelling System" is important for Orcinus orca. Abstract #42. Available from www.orcaresearch.org. 5th International Orca Symposium. 16-22 February. Tarifa Spain. Cooper, T. E. & Visser, I. N. (2025). Pelagic Predation A preliminary list of prey for an ecotype in New Zealand waters. Abstract #16. Available from www.orcaresearch.org. 5th International Orca Symposium. 16-22 February. Tarifa Spain. Copello, J. M., Cazenave, J., Coscarella, M. A., Bellazzi, G. M. & Visser, I. N. (2025). Rinse and repeat. The development of intentional stranding by orca (Orcinus orca) at Punta Norte, Argentina, through training, practice & cultural learning. Abstract #15. Available from www.pn_orca.org. 5th International Orca Symposium. 16-22 February. Tarifa…
$0 spent0% of program spendingPublications: The following scientific publications were supported by the Global Orca Charity and were published in 2025 (Director Visser was a co-author for each of these): The Punta Norte 2025-26 photo-identification guide, available free of charge to the public (downloadable via the website www.pn-orca.org). The guide was translated into Spanish to facilitate local use in Argentina. Bolanos-Jimenez, J., Visser, I. N., Narvaez, Y., Narvaez, M., Morales, J. & Bolanos-Villarroel, M. A. (2025). Successful rescue of orca (Orcinus orca) in Venezuela: first mass stranding event in the Wider Caribbean Region. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 105, e34 (31-38). Loch, C., Visser, I. N., Stratford, K., White, S., Bull, S., Matenga, L., Johnstone, M. & Stewart-Oliphant, R. (2025). Tooth wear and dental calculus in a group of orca (Orcinus orca) stranded on the New Zealand southern coast. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand; Makelainen, P. H., Visser, I. N., Cooper, T. E. & Cusson, M. (2025). Worldwide variation in shape and size of orca (Orcinus orca) saddle patches. Marine Mammal Science, 41(1), e13171 (13171-13118). Nunny, L., Bossely, M., Boys,…
$0 spent0% of program spendingCollaboration with other researchers and organizaitons: The Global Orca Charity continued its collaboration with 'World Orca Day' to prepare social media to celebrate the event on July 14, 2025. Director Visser continued to provide expert consultation with the French Government on the issue of captive orca and sanctuaries. Director Visser also worked as a consultant in conjunction with with the organizations WeWhale (with Director Andre), and Sea Shepherd France to continue to evaluate Iberian orca behavior near the Strait of Gibraltar to de-escalate the interaction between orca and sailboats. The Global Orca Charity also continues to work closely with Orca Research Trust (New Zealand) and Punta Norte Orca Research (Argentina) to support dissemination of informaiton and the conducting of research on wild populations of orca. In September 2025, the GOC partnered with Association WeWhale, Born Free, Dolphin Project, Deutscher Tierschutzbund, FAADA, Free Morgan Foundation, GAIA, Iberian Orca Guardians, Jane Goodall Institute, Marine Connection, One Voice, Orca Research Trust, PETA Deutschland, ProWildlife, RSPCA, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Whale Rescue, World Animal Protection…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,750.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $103k to $6k (−94%).
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.
100% of GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ingrid N Visser
President-Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY’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.
Where its funders are
GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY's revenue fell 99% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
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Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY?
- GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being CRAWFORD WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY?
- CRAWFORD WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL ORCA CHARITY 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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