California · Nonprofit
OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH
OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,000 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Ocean Conservation Research does
Mission
Ocean Conservation Research is focused on understanding the energy and noise impacts of the industrialization of the ocean and its consequences on marine life We engage in marine biological and technological research based on conservation priorities We use the products of this research to inform the policies and practice of the public industry and lawmakers so that we may all become stewards of the sea
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sounds of the Bay Voyages taking under-served students out on San Francisco Bay to explore through hydrophones zooplankton trawls benthic sampling and water quality testing introducing them to scientific methodology as ways of appreciating where they live
$3,500 spentof which $3,500 as grants17% of program spendingParticipating in professional societies attending conferences presenting papers and informing policy makers Includes membership to the Acoustical Society of America the International Standards Organization and the American national Standards Inst
$12,608 spent60% of program spendingPublication of media peer reviewed scientific papers online video printed matter and online newsletters exploring and advancing ocean conservation through science and policy
$4,843 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,951.
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 2023 to 2024, from $48k to $63k (+31%).
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 OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $83k.
From the IRS filings of OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH’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
OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH: 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 OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH?
- OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,000 to it, the largest being The Mental Insight Foundation ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $278,000 in grants to OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH?
- The Mental Insight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing