Nonprofit
Ocean Wise Conservation Association
Ocean Wise Conservation Association receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ERM GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Bonnell Cove Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Allpeoplebehappy Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 77% · 2021 77% · 2022 56% · 2023 50% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 Ocean Wise Conservation Association’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.
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.
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bonnell Cove Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Allpeoplebehappy Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Towanda Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John a & Elizabeth F Taylor Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ocean Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Systems Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humphreys Family Foundation of Scottsdaleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ocean Foundationportfolio 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 Ocean Wise Conservation Association
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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ocean Wise Nevada LLC · disregarded
- Ocean Wise Management Ltd · corp_trust
- Ocean Wise Research Ltd · corp_trust
- Ocean Wise Consulting Servs Ltd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ocean Wise Conservation Association: 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 Ocean Wise Conservation Association?
- Ocean Wise Conservation Association receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being ERM GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ocean Wise Conservation Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Ocean Wise Conservation Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ocean Wise Conservation Association?
- ERM GROUP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ocean Wise Conservation Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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