Ohio · Nonprofit
OurBlueSeas
OurBlueSeas (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,040,200 to it, the largest being The Gale Foundation ($3,040,200). 0 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.
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundationlocal
- The Baum Foundationportfolio match
- Orca Free Incportfolio match
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 OurBlueSeas’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of OurBlueSeas's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Higley Fund of the Cleveland FoundationlocalOH · funds 126 organizations near you
- The Baum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orca Free Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shoes and Clothes for KidslocalOH · funds 140 organizations near you
- Rock the Ocean Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Questportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater ClevelandlocalOH · funds 126 organizations near you
- Bonnell Cove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Planet Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ocean Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Towanda 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 OurBlueSeas
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.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OurBlueSeas: 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 OurBlueSeas?
- OurBlueSeas (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,040,200 to it, the largest being The Gale Foundation ($3,040,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OurBlueSeas have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,040,200 in grants to OurBlueSeas.
- Who is the largest funder of OurBlueSeas?
- The Gale Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,040,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OurBlueSeas find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2023–2024), 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing