California · Nonprofit
One with the Ocean formerly SMOG
One with the Ocean formerly SMOG (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,901 to it, the largest being The Henry Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $7k
What One with the Ocean formerly SMOG does
Mission
Improving human's relationship with the ocean. We offer weekly beach cleanups, coached open water swims and free ocean education and swim lessons to underserved communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We foster equitable access to the ocean through immersive experiences like free swim and surf lessons, and environmental education programs for underserved communities as well as weekly open-water swims to ensure safety in the water.
$118,501 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,501.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $30k (+58%).
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 One with the Ocean formerly SMOG’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $130.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 One with the Ocean formerly SMOG’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
One with the Ocean formerly SMOG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 One with the Ocean formerly SMOG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
One with the Ocean formerly SMOG draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
One with the Ocean formerly SMOG has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like One with the Ocean formerly SMOG
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.
Public support
100%
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 One with the Ocean formerly SMOG: 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 One with the Ocean formerly SMOG?
- One with the Ocean formerly SMOG (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,901 to it, the largest being The Henry Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does One with the Ocean formerly SMOG have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $39,901 in grants to One with the Ocean formerly SMOG, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of One with the Ocean formerly SMOG?
- The Henry Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like One with the Ocean formerly SMOG 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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