California · Nonprofit
Pacific Beach Coalition
Pacific Beach Coalition (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,128 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,702). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $265k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Pacific Beach Coalition does
Mission
The Pacific Beach Coalition is dedicated to preserving the ocean, coastal habitat and wildlife, and ending litter, through advocacy, education, community building, and citizen action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Beach Cleanups: In 2024 we engaged ~11,000 volunteers at over 160 cleanup events to remove27,000 pounds of trash and recycles and 248,000 toxic cigarette butts from 10 monthly locations and 60 Corporate and School GiveBack cleanups in San Mateo County.Naturalists and site captains provide a safe and educational experience. These cleanups target our beaches, creeks, streets, shopping centers and parking lots and promote community awareness and increase environmental stewardship.
$147,083 spent100% of program spendingHabitat Restoration: Several thousand volunteers continue transforming the native habitat of Linda Mar Beach and the coastal trail to Rockaway in Pacifica but our work has also expanded to 2 sites in Daly City. Native plants are thriving in areas that knew only weeds. Members grow native plants for our sites from local watershed seeds and water and care for them throughout the year. Volunteers mulched over 5500 cu. Yd. of open space in addition to removing over 50,000 pounds of invasive weeds.
School Education & Special Events: 2024s educational efforts focused on whales, and reached ~5000 students at assemblies honoring the incredible ocean dwellers. Our 13 naturalists highlighted whales in their outreach to our 11,000 volunteers and PBC held a WHALEFEST that drew in over 4000 visitors to learn about them too. We also championed a Butt Blitz, an educational campaign that highlighted the toxic filters that poison our streets, beaches, and waters which resulted in73,000 filters collected in under 6 weeks. Our butt collection campaign has now collected and recycled over 2000 pounds of filters via Terracycle keeping over 2 million filters out of the ocean.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $147,083.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $153k to $208k (+36%).
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: 2021 10% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of Pacific Beach Coalition’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Jim Fithian
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $700 → $23k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Pacific Beach Coalition’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
Pacific Beach Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Pacific Beach Coalition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 49% · 2021 74% · 2022 39% · 2023 67% — 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
33% of Pacific Beach Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
78% of Pacific Beach Coalition's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Pacific Beach Coalition runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pacific Beach Coalition
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.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Pacific Beach Coalition: 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 Pacific Beach Coalition?
- Pacific Beach Coalition (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,128 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,702). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Pacific Beach Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $116,128 in grants to Pacific Beach Coalition, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pacific Beach Coalition?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pacific Beach Coalition 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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