Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
OCEANA INC
OCEANA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 483 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,965,731 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($21,665,000). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 483
- Grants received
- $151M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Oceana Inc does
Mission
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Internationalin the other countries where oceana operates, our teams work with local communities to win policies that protect fisheries and livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean. Our campaigns include establishing marine protected areas that serve as sanctuaries for commercially important fish to breed and grow, reforming outdated fishery laws to require science-based catch limits, tracking of fishing vessels, and practical management plans, banning the use of damaging bottom trawls, protecting marine resources for small-scale fishers, rebuilding the populations of forage fish to strengthen the marine food chain, protect "blue-carbon" ecosystems such as kelp forests and mangroves from pollution and development, ban new offshore oil drilling, and limit the use of throwaway plastic that ends up in the ocean.corporate plastics campaignoceana has successfully pressured amazon, the world's largest online retailer, to significantly reduce the amount of plastic they use in their packaging. We are also campaigning for major beverage companies to increase the percentage of refillable and reusable bottles offered to consumers. We are working with sports organizations and venues to swap…
$16,206,649 spentof which $791,015 as grants49% of program spendingUnited statesin the united states, oceana is working on science-based policy campaigns to stop new offshore oil and gas development, reduce illegal fishing, protect marine habitat, save endangered species, reduce single-use plastics, and defend the nation's conservation laws.in 2024, our campaign goals included banning new offshore oil drilling in 625 million acres of federal waters, rebuilding the populations of pacific sardines, the basis of the food chain in the waters off the us west coast, saving endangered north atlantic right whales from the threats of ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear, protecting fragile seafloor habitat in alaska from destructive bottom trawling, supporting the use of traps and nets that do not indiscriminately kill thousands of un-targeted marine animals, enacting policies across the country that ban unnecessary single-use plastics, and defending the endangered species act, the marine mammal protection act, the national environmental policy act, and the magnuson stevens conservation and management act from attempts to weaken legislation or defund agencies that enforce these laws.
$10,618,031 spentof which $202,012 as grants32% of program spendingMarketing and communicationskey achievements of oceana's marketing and communications department in 2024 are highlighted below:- oceana's grassroots base consisted of 6.3 million organizational supporters. - oceana has 9 million supporters worldwide.
$2,915,375 spent9% of program spendingMarine science
$2,762,825 spent8% of program spendingLaw
$690,183 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,193,063.
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 2017 to 2018, from $41M to $57M (+37%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 6% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OCEANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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 83 funders to 180 funders, grant income rose $4.8M → $26M.
56 of 483 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 OCEANA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 483 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
OCEANA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
44% 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 OCEANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 40% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 25% — 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
41% of OCEANA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
OCEANA INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
OCEANA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding OCEANA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $64
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 OCEANA INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Oceana Action Inc · exempt
- Fundacion Oceana · exempt
- Oceana UK · exempt
- Oceana in Belize · exempt
- Friends of Oceana · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCEANA INC: 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 OCEANA INC?
- OCEANA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 483 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,965,731 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($21,665,000). 270 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCEANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 483 organizations giving $150,965,731 in grants to OCEANA INC, 270 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCEANA INC?
- THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,665,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCEANA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 483 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